Jared Mayers, MD (HST '17), Ph.D., is a recipient of the 2017 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists in the category of Translational Medicine. 

"The international prize is awarded annually to four young scientists for outstanding life science research for which he/she earned a doctoral degree in the previous two years."  Together with three other winners of the 2017 prize, Dr. Mayers has been invited to Stockholm, Sweden for the awards ceremony and banquet.  

Read more about the prize here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1265.1.full

Read Dr. Mayers's winning essay, published in Science online:  http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1265.1.full