Molecular biology professor Bonnie Bassler is the second Princeton recipient of the For Women in Science Award, which is presented by UNESCO and L’Oreal. President Shirley Tilghman was the University’s first recipient in 2002.
The For Women in Science Award recognizes women who have made significant advances in scientific research. Honorees will attend a ceremony at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, where they will each receive $100,000.
Other winners include Jill Farrant from South Africa, Ingrid Scheffer from Australia, Frances Ashcroft from the United Kingdom and Susana Lopez from Mexico.
Bassler has received numerous accolades during her 17-year tenure at the University. She was most recently nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a National Science Board member, where she will oversee budget directions and approve major new programs and awards. Her other awards include a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, or “genius grant,” as well as the 2009 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences. In 2005, Bassler was selected as one of 43 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, after which she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Her research focuses on quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another.
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