The Vilcek Foundation announced this week that Mohamed Abou Donia,  an associate professor of molecular biology, was one of three recipients of the 2021 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. The prizes are awarded annually to extraordinary early-career scientists whose work represents a profound advance in their respective fields. Like the other Vilcek Prizes, it is awarded to scholars who work in the United States but were born elsewhere.