Philip J. Kranzusch, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been named as a laureate for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists. Kranzusch was one of three laureates announced at a ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History in New York last month. The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists honor outstanding contributions by researchers aged 42 and younger in the United States in the Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering. Kranzusch was recognized for discoveries made by his lab, which reveal how core components of the human immune system descended from ancient proteins that first evolved in bacteria billions of years ago. These proteins inhibit the replication of bacteriophages (known informally as phages), or viruses within bacteria. The work provides insights into host-virus interactions throughout all kingdoms of life.
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