Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, professor in the department of molecular microbiology and immunology (MMI) has been named the recipient of the 2021 Shikani El-Hibri Prize. This award recognizes a basic science investigator for a major scientific contribution with significant potential for public health or clinical impact. Dr. Jacobs-Lorena’s recent paper “Clock genes and environmental cues coordinate Anopheles pheromone synthesis, swarming, and mating” published in Science can be found here.
Peter Agre, MD, MMI professor and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, nominated Professor Jacobs-Lorena for the award and says, “For the past 18 years, we have been exceedingly fortunate to have Professor Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena as our colleague at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marcelo’s remarkable creativity and his rigorous scientific techniques have yielded answers to important problems. Quietly polite, this distinguished Brazilian scientist has made another breakthrough discovery directed at the problem of mosquito-borne malaria. Most recently he has elucidated the molecular genetic controls of mosquito mating. Marcelo has been a role model for us all, and we are thrilled to learn that he will receive the prestigious 2021 Shikani / El Hibri Prize which he so greatly deserves.”
