Congratulations to Daniel Aridgides, MD, PhD, who has been awarded the LeRoy Matthews Physician-Scientist Award of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) for his research project, “Pseudomonas quorum sensing mutants inhibit alveolar macrophage function.” Dr. Aridgides, a member of Dr. Alix Ashare’s lab, is a Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellow at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. The LeRoy Matthews Physician-Scientist Award provides up to six years of support for outstanding, newly trained pediatricians and internists (M.D.s and M.D./Ph.D.s) to complete sub-specialty training, develop into independent investigators, and initiate a research program.