February 5, 2025
Whitney awarded grant for manuscript on biomedical use of horseshoe crabs
Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, was awarded a $34,452 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation books program to complete a manuscript on the biomedical use of horseshoe crabs. Whitney’s research has highlighted a potential shift, prompted by regulatory changes, toward the use of animal-free alternatives for endotoxin testing in the pharmaceutical industry.