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David Goodsell Wins Top Wellcome Images Award

An illustration of an Ebola virus particle by David Goodsell, associate professor of molecular biology at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has won the top prize in the 2016 Wellcome Image Awards, which recognize the most informative, striking and technically excellent images of biomedical science.

Goodsell’s watercolor painting was cited as “a stunning illustration of a deadly pathogen—a cross-section through an Ebola virus particle...[that] elegantly displayed the biological structure of a virus which has caused such devastation in West Africa.” His illustration was determined the best of 20 winners from a field of 1,500 submissions. In a Wellcome Images video, Goodsell describes how he creates intricate paintings of molecular structures.

Judged by experts in science communication, medicine and biomedical science, the winners were selected from all new images acquired in 2015 by Wellcome Images, a medical picture library and a source of images on medicine and its history. The 20 images are exhibited currently in venues across the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa.

A complete description of Goodsell’s winning image is available on the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics’s Protein Data Bank website, an online resource of 3D biological macromolecular structures. For information on Goodsell’s work, see his faculty webpage, lab website and molecular art/molecular science page.

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An illustration of an Ebola virus particle by TSRI's David Goodsell won the top prize in the 2016 Wellcome Image Awards for outstanding biomedical science images.

Video: Associate Professor David Goodsell discusses his art.

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David Goodsell Wins Top Wellcome Images Award