Press/media

• Press/media and video section of the Nutritious Rice for the World project.

• July 20, 2010: Ram Saudrala won the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
• May 21, 2010: Ram Samudrala won the 2010 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (snaphot of web page with mentee comment).
• November 24, 2009: IBM/World Community Grid won the 2009 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award for our Nutritious Rice in the World project in the area of poverty alleviation.
• October 7, 2008: Our automated approach for analysing protein function is highlighted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). See PLoS Computational Biology 4(9): e1000181 to read the paper.
• July 14, 2008: More than 200 media articles have been written about our Nutritious Rice for the World project, including in the New York Times Business Week, Fortune, CNN Money, The Times of India, and also a variety of other international media outlets.
• January 30, 2007: The Washington Research Foundation's 25th annual report showcases my work on therapeutic discovery.
• October 10, 2006: The paper entitled "Identifying inhibitors of the SARS coronavirus proteinase" by Ekachai Jenwitheesuk and Ram Samudrala published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 13: 3989-3992, 2003 resulted in a Most Cited Paper 2003 - 2006 Award.
• July 21, 2006: An article in the Journal of Proteome Research highlights the Bioverse Integrator in their TOOLbox section.
• February 10, 2005: An article about my New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture was published in University Week.
• December 25, 2004: The Seattle Times published an article I wrote about biological evolution being a fact and not a theory (i.e., the process of evolution is different from theories explaining how evolution occurs).
• November 1, 2004: An article on systems biology in Northwest Science and Technology Autumn 2004 issue featured our research.
• October 9, 2003: The University of Washington's The Daily and a variety of other media outlets have written something about my TR100 (world's top young innovators) selection by MIT Technology Review.
• July 7, 2003: The New York Times published a letter I wrote about genetic engineering, stating my belief that directed genetic engineering (the ability to self-evolve) is a natural consequence of evolution (i.e., if the ability to self-evolve arises, it will be selectively advantageous).
• March 3, 2001: An article about the Advanced Technology Initiative under which I was recruited was published in University Week.
• November 4, 1994: Science did a cool feature on the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) where I did my graduate work which tells people about the research I'm doing (p863).