Luciano Marraffini receives the Hans Sigrist Prize for work on antibiotic resistance
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 10:51
in Health & Medicine
This award, bestowed by the University of Bern, honors Marraffini for his work developing a new approach to fight antibiotic resistance. Marraffini studies CRISPR-Cas systems, which enable some bacteria to acquire immunity against viruses, and is investigating ways to use them to fight off microbial pathogens. More »