Nielsen Receives ASM Women's Career Development Award

Durham, N.C. (May 2006) — Kirsten Nielsen, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University Medical Center, has received a 2006 ASM Women's Career Development Award. She works in the laboratory of Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD.

A cash award of $1,200 and a commemorative plaque will be made.

Women's Career Development Grants are given to encourage the careers of women with outstanding accomplishments and potential to carry out research in the area of microbiology.  The fields covered by the award are any of those represented by Divisions of the American Society for Microbiology. The grants are to support the career development of the candidate by providing funds to travel to a meeting, to visit another laboratory, to take a course in a geographically distant place, or for other purposes to advance the candidate's career.  Up to two grants are given annually.