Trevor Bedford and Richard Neher are winners of the first-ever Open Science Prize. They will share the $230,000 prize money.
Trevor and Richard developed nextstrain, a real-time tracking tool for emerging epidemics such as ebola and zika. Read Trevor's blog post to find out more about how the idea first started.
The Open Science Prize is a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Congratulations Trevor and Richard!