Daniel Colley, Distinguished Research Professor of Microbiology and director of the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, was awarded the 2012 Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Distinguished Life Sciences Scientist Award for his research in tropical medicine and parasitology. Colley has focused for more than 40 years on the immunology of schistosomiasis, a debilitating chronic worm disease that affects 240 million people worldwide, most in the developing world.
The Life Sciences Awards, supported by a partnership of the foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are made annually to recognize Americans who exemplify excellence in the life sciences. Awards this year also were given to an educator and two high school students working in the field of life sciences.
