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Congratulations to Simon Roux for winning the 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize for his outstanding contributions to microbiome research!

Dr. Katharina Höfer (Philipps University Marburg) has been awarded a LOEWE top professorship — 2.8 million euros over a period of five years to support her research into the role of RNA modifications in biology and new mechanisms of gene re

Karen Maxwell (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship for her research into antiviral defenses, which uncovered novel CRISPR inhibitors (anti-CRISPRs), according to a recent announcement by NSERC (Canada).

Viruses Journal is now accepting nominations for their 2022 Early Career Investigator Award. The prize will be awarded to two early-career investigators demonstrating excellence in virology, and will include an invitation to speak at the Vi

PHAGE Journal has selected Nikoline Olsen, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, who co-authored A New High-Throughput Screening Method for Phages: Enabling Crude Isolation and Fast Identification of Diverse Phages with Th

Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Barr who was named a 2021 Victorian Tall Poppy Award winner! The Tall Poppy Award was created to recognise Australian intellectual and scientific excellence. Dr. Barr leads a 14-member research group at Monash

Another feather in the cap for African phage researchers!! Dr. Jerrold Agbankpe was awarded the Iso Lomso Visiting Scholar Award to collaborate with researchers at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study to develop phages as future a

Thanks to all who attended 2021 Phage Futures Congress last week! The conference conducted a Young Researchers Poster Competition, and announced the four finalists on the last day. Congratulations to: - Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Med

PhagoMed's synthetic phage lysin platform for treatment of bacterial vaginosis came in second place (and won 20,000 Euro) in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's 2020 Health Catapult contest.

Britt Koskella (Associate Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley) has received the Fleming Prize from the Microbiology Society (awarded to an early career researcher who has achieved an outstanding resear

It was a great week for microbiology; Nobel prizes were awarded for discovering CRISPR-Cas (Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna) and Hepatitis C (Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles Rice). The phage field should be especially pro

Apply for the Viruses Young Investigator Award to win 2000 Swiss Francs, an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Viruses (subject to peer review), an engraved plaque, and an invitation to speak at the Viruses

Yoon Hwang of the Naval Medical Research Unit in San Antonio received the Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award for his research into the development of a handheld device that uses phages to detect and identify

Congratulations to Cesar de la Fuente, one of our early Phage Directory community members (check out his impressive collection of phages!), who was just awarded the 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award.

Congratulations to Cesar de la Fuente, one of our early Phage Directory community members (check out his impressive collection of phages!), who was just awarded the 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award.

Normally presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, the 2020 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize will still be awarded this year. The award acknowledges young scientists with skill, insight, rigor, and dedication to scien

Normally presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, the 2020 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize will still be awarded this year. The award acknowledges young scientists with skill, insight, rigor, and dedication to scien

Applications for the Pharmabiotics 2020 Young Investigators Awards are now open! This is a co-initiative by the Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI) and Institut Mérieux. An award of €10,000 will be allocated to a young clinician or academ

Applications for the Pharmabiotics 2020 Young Investigators Awards are now open! This is a co-initiative by the Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI) and Institut Mérieux. An award of €10,000 will be allocated to a young clinician or academ

Felix Biotechnology is a new phage company using phages to target antibiotic resistant bacteria based on their mechanism of antibiotic resistance (working with Yale University). They just won this year's Falling Walls Venture competition in