Professor Mike Ferguson to receive 2016 Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology

Published On Thu 13 Aug 2015 by Grant Hill

The University of Dundee’s Professor Mike Ferguson has been named as the recipient of the prestigious 2016 Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology.

The prize, awarded by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), recognises scientists who are making seminal contributions to the field. Ching Chung “C.C.” Wang is a pioneer of molecular parasitology and has collaborated with his wife Alice during his distinguished career. The Wangs established the award to celebrate achievements of researchers and Professor Ferguson is its 5th winner.

Mike Ferguson is Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University’s School of Life Sciences, a world class research centre in the field of molecular parasitology. Researchers are working to unravel the basic biology of kinetoplastid parasites, validate new drug targets and establish the mode of action of new and experimental drugs..

“This prize is of particular significance to me,” said Professor Ferguson. “Professor C.C. Wang is an outstanding pioneer of molecular parasitology. He made a number of seminal discoveries on the trypanosomes that cause African sleeping sickness and, together with his wife Alice, on the Giardia parasites that cause a form of dysentery.

“It is a great honour to be selected by a distinguished panel of peers for an award endowed by, and bearing the names of, Alice and C.C. Wang. I am also extremely grateful to my co-workers, past and present, for making this possible.”

Professor Ferguson will receive the Alice and C.C. Wang Award and deliver the prize lecture at the ASBMB 2016 Annual Meeting in San Diego in April next year. 

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