Miguel A. Gómez Lim, a visiting scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell, was selected this fall by the Mexican Academy of Science for Mexico's National Young Investigator Award. Only one scientist in Mexico is given the award each year, and it automatically confers the winner with membership in the Mexican Academy of Science.
The selection considerations for the young investigator award are publications, research (record of accomplishment) and relevance of research to Mexican national priorities. The judges cited Gómez Lim's work on the production of vaccines in plants, considered to be a high priority by the Mexican government. Sometime this year, the president of Mexico will make a formal presentation of the award to Gómez Lim at the president's residence, Los Pinos, in Mexico City.
Gómez Lim, from Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N. (CINESTAV), a Mexican health research agency in Irapuato, Mexico, is working in the Plants and Human Health program at Boyce Thompson Institute. He will be at the Boyce Thompson Institute for a year, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, working with other scientists on the development of delivery techniques for vaccines.
Charles Arntzen, president and CEO of the institute, said, "The goal is to deliver a 'technology package' which makes the eradication of one or more infectious diseases possible."
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