Professor Westra finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK

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Prof. Westra became finalist for the 2020 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK in Life Sciences. He is recognized for discovering how ecology can drive the evolution of the bacterial CRISPR immune system to battle the viruses—or phages—that infect bacteria and how a greater understanding of the evolution of the CRISPR immune system may aid in tackling the problem of anti-microbial resistance.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of the UK’s most innovative young faculty-rank (academic staff) scientists and engineers working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.  The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK are generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and independently administered by the New York Academy of Sciences.