John Blazeck, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is one of ten researchers at U.S. college and universities selected to receive a Beckman Young Investigator Award in 2020.

The award, which includes $600,000 over four years, was created by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to support the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of research in science.

This year’s Beckman awardees were selected from a pool of more than 300 applicants after a three-part review led by a panel of scientific experts.

Blazeck, who joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in January 2019, says his lab will “use resources from the Beckman Young Investigator Award to better understand how our immune systems fight diseases. To do this, we will create a new platform technology that greatly enhances our ability to study antibody responses. Our new technology can have applications in vaccine design, drug development, and the study of infectious diseases.