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Dr. Rajanish Giri awarded DBT Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) 2018
Dr. Rajanish Giri, an assistant professor at IIT Mandi, has been awarded the DBT Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) 2018. Dr. Giri is selected for his proposed innovative idea on Zika virus Capsid Folding and inhibitor discovery. Additionally, he has proven expertise on understanding and solving the fundamental problems of protein folding in various structured ..
Topics: Branches of biology • DBT • Indian Institute of Technology Madras • Intrinsically disordered proteins • Mandi, Himachal Pradesh • Protein folding • Protein structure • Zika virus
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. It’s a method of simplifying and improving the imaging of biomolecules.
Topics: Biology • Branches of biology • Cell biology • Cryo • Cryogenic electron microscopy • Electron microscopy • Jacques Dubochet • Joachim Frank • Microscopy • Protein structure • Richard Henderson • Transmission electron cryomicroscopy