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Dr Savins Puertas Martin receives the Young Researcher Award in Computer Science 2022

Dr Savins Puertas Martin, a Postdoc from the Chemoinformatics research group, received the Young Researcher Award in Computer Science 2022, a prestigious award from the Scientific Informatics Society of Spain (SCIE, Sociedad Científica Informática de España) and the BBVA Foundation . He received the award for his excellent contributions in the field of high-performance computing, which led to the development of innovative techniques that facilitate the design of new drugs, as well as his high level of internationalisation. His research has focused on virtual screening, a technique that allows the selection of compounds most similar to a reference molecule from a database that may contain millions of them, with the aim of accelerating drug discovery and development. "The objective is to identify, in this database, which molecules are the most similar to the one we have selected as a reference, analysing different characteristics such as shape, number of atoms, etc. Initially, we st...