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The American National Academy of Sciences elected at its annual meeting new members. Among them are Erick Carreira, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Jürg Fröhlich, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics.

The Royal Society, a major scientific society, has elected the mathematician, ETH professor and winner of a Fields Medal, Wendelin Werner, as its foreign member. Werner is a leading researcher in the field of probability theory and the geometry of chance.

The "Prous Institute-​Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery" aims to encourage innovation and investigation in technologies related to drug discovery. This year, the Award goes to Gisbert Schneider, Professor at IPW, for his pioneering work integrating machine learning into medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and chemical biology.

Randall Platt, head of the Biological Engineering Lab, receives the 25th Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for his pioneering work developing a method to record timelines of gene expression events using a CRISPR-Cas system. Randall’s work focuses on living diagnostics - engineered bacteria that act as biographers of their environment by continuously recording gene expression information.

One of the most prestigious prizes in the area of theoretical computer science has been awarded to Robin Moser (D-INFK) for his algorithmic version of the Lovász Local Lemma.