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This honor recognizes academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in developing outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.

She received the award for her collaborative research on using satellite-derived chlorophyll data to predict cholera outbreaks up to several months in advance.

He discussed big data’s role in addressing real-world challenges across fields like agriculture, bioinformatics and machine learning.

He will lead faculty, staff and students while continuing his research in bioinformatics and metagenomics.

The workshop sought to address computational challenges and explore opportunities for handling large-scale sequencing data in biomedical applications.

The award recognizes scientists and institutions worldwide that solve problems of the tropics through science and technology.

Rama Chellappa and his team won the information sciences category for developing HyperFace, a cutting-edge facial recognition algorithm, while Eytan Ruppin and his collaborators earned runner-up honors for advancing technology to personalize cancer treatment.

Mihai Pop is overseeing the center’s data analysis core, while Rita Colwell will utilize GENIUS, a powerful bioinformatics software system, to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites in wastewater throughout the treatment process.

About 3,000 researchers earned this distinction for authoring Highly Cited Papers, ranking in the top 1% by citations in their field and year.

She was honored for more than five decades of pioneering research in marine and environmental science, with a focus on the oceans' influence on human health.