Houra Merrikh PhD

Dr. Merrikh received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2009 and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 2011. Dr. Merrikh is one of the recipients of the 2013 NIH Director's New Innovator Awards, which was granted in support of her ongoing work investigating the impact of replication-transcription conflicts on bacterial evolution. She received a University of Washington Innovation Award in 2015 for her ongoing work on the impact of replication-transcription conflicts on antibiotic resistance development. In 2016, Dr. Merrikh was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Sciences.