Iker Etchegaray was awarded the Lutz Award for 2015. Etchegaray is a PhD candidate working in the lab of Dr. Kim McCall. Etchegaray’s research focuses on elucidating the effectors of cell removal, through phagocytosis, in the Drosophila ovary and also studies processes in the brain of the fly. Etchegaray hopes uncover the processes controlling the response that brain phagocytes, glia, engage in when presented with cell death.