{description}Over a span of nine days in September, Stanford Associate Professor of Biochemistry Pehr Harbury was awarded two grants guaranteeing him no less than million in research money for the next five years. At only forty years of age, he has garnered the attention that comes with two of the most prestigious prizes that can be awarded to an American biochemist aside from the Nobel Prize: the MacArthur Fellowship and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award.{/description}