Sorin Istrail, the Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Computer Science and director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology, has received a $65,000 targeted research seed fund award for scientific computing. This award was bestowed by the Office of the Vice President for Research and funded by the Office of the Provost.

Istrail will use the seed money to begin a groundbreaking project: Computationally reconstruct a single protein molecule folding in vivo. Istrail says meeting this goal would go a long way toward advancing the science of genomics and improving human health ...