The 2024 Ascending Star Award is an honor that recognizes highly productive, creative mid-career faculty members. As Ascending Stars, each of the five awardees receives $25,000 in research support and will give a research talk at 3:30 p.m. in Alan Magee Scaife Hall, room 3785.

Kenneth Urish, a physician-scientist, is developing new classes of antibiotics and bacteriophage therapies for treating surgical infections. With a surgical practice in hip and knee replacement and complex revision surgery, he and his research group have provided investigational new drug-enabling technology for multiple therapies in U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical studies. His talk will take place on Thursday, Oct. 24.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture.