DuPont scientist honored for research benefiting fermented dairy foods
Philippe Horvath was awarded the 2018 Bower Award for groundbreaking research on CRISPR-Cas.
The Specialty Products Division of DowDuPont, Wilmington, Del., said Philippe Horvath, senior scientist, was awarded the Franklin Institute’s prestigious 2018 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Horvath will be honored for groundbreaking research on CRISPR-Cas during a ceremony in April 2018 in Philadelphia.
DuPont Nutrition & Health takes advantage of the native CRISPR-Cas system to select, through a fully natural process, bacteria that are immunized against bacteriophages. The natural immunization process does not involve gene editing technologies, the company said. The use of starter cultures containing such immunized bacteria ultimately improves the quality and safety of fermented dairy foods.