Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has received a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. Medzhitov studies the way in which the human immune system detects and subsequently becomes activated by infection. The Blavatnik Awards recognize the most noteworthy and innovative researchers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and carry an unrestricted cash prize of $25,000.