Dr. Meg Younger was featured in The Brink alongside BU School of Public Health (SPH) Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Dr. Julia Bond, for being awarded with the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. Meant to support “early career investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects,” the award funds research with $450,000 annually for five years.
Dr. Younger will use the funding to strengthen her research on mosquito olfaction, particularly investigating how mosquitoes use their sense of smell to find humans. In her interview with The Brink, Younger describes her lab’s investigation of strategies to uncover how mosquitoes process scent information. Younger hopes her research can advance the prevention of disease transmission via mosquito bites.
Read more about The Brink’s interview with Younger here.
Congratulations to Dr. Meg Younger!