Houra Merrikh

Houra Merrikh is an Iranian-American microbiologist.[1][2] She is a full professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Biochemistry. Her field of work is antibiotic resistance and bacterial evolvability.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Memarian, Jahandad (June 26, 2016). "Houra Merrikh on Overcoming Adversity and Becoming a Leading Scientist". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Yong, Ed (November 15, 2018). "A Bold New Strategy for Stopping the Rise of Superbugs". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  3. ^ "How head-on collisions of DNA protein machines stop replication: The collisions promote mutations that may help bacteria adapt to stress". ScienceDaily. August 15, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  4. ^ "It's In the Genes w/ Houra Merrikh". Everything You Know Is Wrong. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019. Her research into the mutagenic nature of co-directional gene collisions were revolutionary in the field and won her the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.