Jessica Osterhout, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, has been selected as a 2025 Pew Scholar by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to early career investigators of outstanding promise whose science is relevant to the advancement of human health. Osterhout will use the four-year award to investigate how the immune system communicates with the brain during sickness.
“The Pew really funds people that do exciting work, at the edge of what we know,” Osterhout says. “To be part of the group is a huge honor.”