The $50,000 prize is awarded to American and French scientists below the age of 45 in recognition of their work in biology and medicine. The award also provides American recipients with the opportunity to visit a research facility in France.
Bassler received the award in recognition of her “pioneering discoveries of the universal use of chemical communication among bacteria and the elucidation of structural and regulatory mechanisms controlling bacterial assemblies,” according to the National Academy of Sciences website.
Bassler has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1994. She has served as president of the American Society for Microbiology since 2009 and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2005, and she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2002.
Bassler received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at UC Davis in 1984 and a doctorate in biochemistry at the Johns Hopkins University in 1990.
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