2024 Judson C. French Award

The team is recognized for their seminal work in producing a set of complex, defined microbial control materials that simulate real-world samples to challenge biosurveillance platforms. This effort involved the development of a new infrastructure to curate, formulate, characterize, and distribute living biological materials. These materials were used to support government-funded technology developers to enable the testing and evaluation of novel pathogen-detection platforms. These platforms have been adopted by other federal agencies to support their biosurveillance efforts, including food safety and emerging pathogen detection.