Dr Emiliano DeCristofaro, and co-Investigator Dr Christophe Dessimoz, have been awarded with Google Research Award. The award features a  $70,625.00 USD grant and  will cover tuition for a graduate student.  Their proposal is titled "Enabling Progress in Genomic Research via Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing" and is one of the 151 funded projects out of a total of 950.

More details are available in the Google Research Blog.