[caption id="attachment_37513" align="alignright" width="300"] Alison Criss, PhD[/caption] Congratulations to Alison Criss, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and vice chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, for her recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) R37 MERIT award for research about Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea. The NIH MERIT award is a “Method to Extend Research in Time” ...