Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Maria Spies has received the 2010 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the Biophysical Society. This prestigious award honors Spies's impressive achievements in biophysical research at the early stages of her academic career. It also recognizes her promise as an emerging leader in the scientific community. According to the Biophysical Society, Spies was selected for "her exemplary research into the mechanisms of DNA repair and the cell cycle maintenance machinery."
Dr. Spies and her work will be featured at the Awards Symposium during the 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysics Society in San Francisco this coming February, 2010.
Earlier this year, Dr. Spies received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Early Career Scientist Award.