Eran Blacher: Grand Prize winner of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize

Our guest today is Eran Blacher, who is currently a senior postdoctoral fellow at Stanford School of Medicine studying the immune system-gut-brain axis in ageing and neurological disorders. Eran is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his essay, “Can microbes combat neurodegeneration?” based on his research on the relationship between the microbiome and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.Links to details about the prize-winning essay are available on the MicrobiomeResearchX (MRX) website and related AAAS sites. MRX website https://noster-mrx.net/Summary of the research activities of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize winners https://www.aaas.org/news/gut-brain-axis-yields-clues-neurodegenerative-diseaseEssay by Eran Blacherhttps://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abi9353