Nydiaris Hernandez-Santos, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Bruce Klein, MD, has been awarded a $60,000, 3-year Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. This grant is designed to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research. Her project, entitled “Role of airway epithelial cells in host defense against pulmonary fungal pathogens,” will allow her to test the hypothesis that airway epithelial cells underpin host resistance to fungi.