{"id":13040,"date":"2025-09-02T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:23:48","slug":"clarissa-wins-american-chemical-society-young-investigator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/09\/02\/clarissa-wins-american-chemical-society-young-investigator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarissa wins American Chemical Society Young Investigator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Clarissa-plaque-ACS-2025-1.jpeg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Clarissa-plaque-ACS-2025-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"672,934\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Clarissa-plaque-ACS-2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Clarissa-plaque-ACS-2025-1.jpeg\" class=\" wp-image-13043 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Clarissa-plaque-ACS-2025-1-216x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Clarissa holding the award\" width=\"226\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Clarissa Melo Czekster who has won the American Chemical Society Young Investigator Award 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award was created to honor a young scientists\u2019 contributions to the field of infectious disease research at an early stage in their careers. It is jointly administered by ACS Infectious Diseases and the ACS Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology.<\/p>\n<p>Further details of the award can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/axial.acs.org\/medicinal-chemistry\/meet-the-winners-of-the-2025-acs-infectious-diseases-young-investigator-awards\">ACS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of Clarissa&#8217;s research is shown in the overview image.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13042\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Overview.png\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Overview.png\" data-orig-size=\"2199,2322\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Overview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Overview-970x1024.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13042\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Overview-284x300.png\" alt=\"Visual summary of the research.\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Clarissa Melo Czekster who has won the American Chemical Society Young Investigator Award 2025. The ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award was created to honor a young scientists\u2019 contributions to the field of infectious disease research at an early stage in their careers. It is jointly administered by ACS Infectious Diseases and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":13043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,9,57,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsrc","category-featured","category-school-of-biology-news","category-women-in-science"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Clarissa-plaque-ACS-2025-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}