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Former ECE Ph.D. student receives NIH Salzman Memorial Award

2008-11-24 14:58 (CDT)

Dr. Alberto Bartesaghi, 2005 ECE Ph.D. graduate, received the 2008 Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award in Virology for his work on "Molecular architecture of native HIV-1 gp120 trimers" (and Dr. Sriram Subramaniam, the director of his lab, the corresponding Mentor Award). This is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award given to junior scientists and their mentors. This recognition highlights Bartesaghi's outstanding contributions in the computational techniques for structural determination of various viral components involved in neutralization and cellular entry of SIV and HIV.