Dear Colleagues,

As the Editors-in-Chief of Cells, it is our great pleasure to announce the winner of the Cells 2021 PhD Thesis Award. This prize was aimed to be awarded to a PhD student who is about to graduate or participate in their graduation defense.

The award has been granted to:
“Microbial Activators of the Inflammasome”
By Anukriti Mathur, Australian National University, Australia.

The winner will receive CHF 800 and a certificate.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, we congratulate the winner on her accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups in the above exceptional thesis for their contributions to Cells, and to thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny
Prof. Dr. Cord Brakebusch
Editors-in-Chief, Cells