In the present round of Federation Fellowships, it has been announced that Prof. Jeremy Smith (presently with University of Heidelberg in Germany) has been awarded a Federation Fellowship in "Neutron Scattering in Biology".
This is the second successful Federation Fellowship application involving ANSTO. Jeremy is a leading researcher in the field of computational molecular biophysics and he is recognised as one of the leading biomolecular system modellers in the world and has established computer simulation as a stepping stone between experiment and analytical theory in the examination of motions in complex biological systems.
He has made major contributions to the understanding of enzyme reaction mechanisms, retinal proteins and ion pumping mechanisms, large-scale conformational change, muscle contraction, cancer detection and work towards designing an AIDS vaccine.