Editor Jennifer Straiton speaks to the winner of the 2019 Future Science Future Star Award, Marjorie Pizarro-Guajardo. Marjorie is a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile) specializing in microbiology. Her work focuses on the development of a strategy to remove Clostridium difficile spores from the host to make a therapy that can improve the clearance of the infection.