“Quite a few of my students have changed their career goals to some field of biotechnology after taking this class.” 🥰

“This is an opportunity that we have never been able to provide our students within our district, and I am elated, because of you and your program, we will be able to provide this experience to these students preparing them for the future.”

By placing equal emphasis on research, mentorship, and service in our evaluation, we recognize that true academic leadership involves not only discovery but also the vital work of shaping the future of the scientific community.

Dr. Bosch will be honored during an annual multi-day visit to the One Health Microbiome Center, where he will deliver two public lectures celebrating his contributions spanning the role of microbes in development, evolution, neurobiology, immortality, and cancer.

Bosch has been instrumental in the development of holobiont biology, which views hosts plus their microbiome as structural and functional units in the hierarchy of life. Bosch’s scholarship decisively revealed an ancient, elemental unity of life between the visible and microbial worlds

The inaugural 2025 recipient is Dr. THOMAS BOSCH, who has played one of the most formative roles in the field as a thought leader and experimental maestro. He is the author of over 180 papers and 3 books, a German National Academy of Sciences member, and senior professor at Kiel University.

Microbiome Medal scholars, like those we champion at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social, do not merely advance knowledge and training; they enrich humanity and improve the lives of many people, including those they may never meet. They motivate and accelerate the next generation of microbiome scientists.

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