Dr. Meg Younger has been named a 2022 Searle Scholar. Younger is one of 15 young faculty members in the biomedical sciences and chemistry who have recently been appointed as one of the assistant professors on tenure-track appointments. The cohort was selected from a group of 191 applicants from 137 universities and research institutions. Each Scholar receives an award of $300,000 in flexible funding to support their research over the next three years. Dr. Younger’s lab focuses on olfaction in mosquitos, examining how they detect and encode human odor.