File photograph (02/23/2006), of the American biologist Peter Greenberg, who has been distinguished, together with the biologists Jeffrey I. Gordon and Bonnie L. Bassler, this Wednesday with the Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research 2023 , for their contributions on the essential role of microorganism communities in life on the planet and in that of human beings. EFE/Diego Gomez
Oviedo, Jun 7 (EFE).- American biologists Jeffrey I. Gordon, Peter Greenberg and Bonnie L. Bassler have been honored this Wednesday with the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for their contributions on the essential role of communities of microorganisms in life on the planet and in that of human beings.
Greenberg, a professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington, and Bassler, a researcher at Princeton University, have focused their work on the way in which bacteria communicate with each other (quorum) to coordinate actions that are impossible to undertake by individual cells, research that have been applied for the development of anti-infective therapies.
Professor Gordon, a researcher at the University of Washington Genome Center, has established the role that intestinal microbes play in diseases such as obesity and diabetes or their relationship with childhood malnutrition and obesity by demonstrating how they affect the formation of blood vessels or fat storage.
