A team led by bioscientists from the University has won the international Fight Against Ebola Award for research that identified new insights into the way the deadly virus works.
A team led by bioscientists from the University has won the prestigious international Fight Against Ebola Award for research that identified new insights into the way the deadly virus works.
The team received the award on 11 July from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
Dr Mark Wass, Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology at the University’s School of Biosciences, was presented with the Award and a $2,000 prize at a ceremony at the ISCB’s annual conference in Florida, USA.
Dr Wass and his colleagues Professor Martin Michaelis and Dr Jeremy Rossman led a team that carried out research that identified ‘novel insights into the mechanism that determine Ebola disease severity in humans’.
The team also included further researchers from the University and researchers from Kings College London led by Professor Franca Fraternali.
The award recognises computational research on Ebola that provides measurable outcomes on understanding, handling, treating or preventing the disease.