Livermore, CA – December 2, 2011 – The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced its annual, 2011 Thesis Prize, given this year to three Hertz Fellows for most outstanding doctoral dissertations. The Thesis Prize includes honorariums of $5000 for each Hertz Fellow and $1000 for each of the Fellows’ graduate and undergraduate advisors. Winners include:

Anna Bershteyn, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT. Thesis: “Lipid-coated micro- and nanoparticles as a biomimetic vaccine delivery platform.” Graduate Advisors: Professor Darrell J. Irvine, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...