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Systems Bio Innovation Awards Go to Harvard Scientists

Courtesy The Council for Systems Biology in Boston Aneil Mallavarapu

The Council for Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2) has named the winners of its 2008 Innovation awards, which went to two Harvard researchers. CBS2 is a Boston-area association of academic, clinical, and industrial groups active in the areas of systems biology and systems pharmacology and is based in the HMS Department of Systems Biology.

The Merrimack–CSB2 Prize was awarded to Aneil Mallavarapu, a senior research scientist in the HMS Virtual Cell Program, for his work on little b, an open-source LISP-based language for building modular, shareable, and scalable models of biological systems. The Merrimack-CSB2 Prize is awarded annually to a young scientist for exceptional contributions to the development and application of innovative modeling and computational methods as judged by technical quality, broad utility and fundamental theoretical insight. 

“Aneil Mallavarapu is one of those rare scientific talents who combines a deep understanding of molecular and cellular biology with a mastery of computational technology,” said Jeremy Gunawardena, HMS senior lecturer on systems biology and director of the Virtual Cell Program. “His development of the little b computational infrastructure marks a key step on the road to postgenomic in silico biology and has profoundly improved our ability to construct in silico models of biological systems.”

The Pfizer-CSB2 Prize was awarded to Gavin MacBeath, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, for the development of new protein microarray methods applicable to the study of signal transduction, disease, and targeted therapy in humans.

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