Professor Adriaan Minnaard (Faculty of Science and Engineering) is one of four winners of the Ammodo Science Award, a prize for groundbreaking research. Minnaard received the award along with research groups from the UvA and Harvard University for research into tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
The group showed how tuberculosis bacteria can survive in the body by making special fat molecules. Minnaard can replicate those molecules in the lab, to do follow-up research on them. The prize money for the Science Award is 1.6 million euros.