Rodolphe Barrangou, a food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences professor and a discoverer of the adaptive bacterial immune system, is one of the winners of the 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award, one of the world’s most esteemed medical research prizes. Along with the award comes a prize of $100,000 (Canadian). Earlier in the month, he was awarded the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize. Barrangou joined the NC State faculty in 2013, and in 2014 he was awarded the NC State Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the Rene Descartes University in Paris, France; a master’s degree in biological engineering from the University of Technology in Compiegne, France; a master’s degree in food science and a doctorate in genomics from NC State; and a MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SOURCE: NC State News