Associate Professor Joseph Larkin in Biology received this year’s Innovation Career Development Professorship, an award that recognizes junior faculty whose translational research is likely to lead to future licensed technology.
Professor Larkin’s interdisciplinary work examines how the physical and chemical environment influences microbes (in particular, bacterial biofilms), and how those microbes, in turn, engineer that environment through extracellular matrix and cell-to-cell signals to perpetuate and evolve. His research holds important practical implications for, among other things, maintaining the safety and sanitation of medical devices and water lines.
Congratulations to Professor Larkin on this award!