ONE OF THE WORLD’s top awards for innovation has gone to a Barbadian computer scientist.
Dr Andrew Phillips, who is based in Britain, copped a TR35 award on October 18 for leading the biological computation group at Microsoft Research Cambridge in work that is seeking to uncover fundamental principles of biological computation and develop software to reprogramme human cells.
The award, presented by international journal Technology Review to some of the world’s top innovators under age 35, has in the recent past been won by geniuses like Sergey Brin, co-owner of Google, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Phillips, 34, was described as an outstanding, gifted young scientist whose research into programming biology and DNA was “genuinely revolutionary”.
The former Harrison College student, who won a Barbados Scholarship in 1995, started his intership at Microsoft Research six years ago after earning his doctorate at Imperial College London. (RJ)
