UW Chemistry Professor Eric Strieter is one of two UW-Madison scientists to received a 2010 Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Strieter, assistant professor of chemistry, and Anjon (Jon) Audhya, assistant professor of biomolecular chemistry, will each receive $200,000 unrestricted prize for each.
This award provides needed support to young scholar-scientists engaged in groundbreaking research in the fields of genetics, cell biology and cancer research at critical stages in their careers.
Strieter studies the triggers that control proliferation of harmful bacteria in our bodies. For example, uncontrolled proliferation of certain bacteria in the lungs can impair lung function, especially in people with compromised immune systems.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation created the Shaw Scientist Award from the James D. Shaw and Dorothy Shaw Fund. Dorothy Shaw, widow of prominent Milwaukee attorney James D. Shaw, directed that part of the fund be used to advance biochemistry, biological science, and cancer research at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. Since the first grants were made in 1982, the Shaw Award has provided more than $12 million in grants to support cutting-edge research at the two institutions.
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