Denmark and UK 2026

Rasmus Nielsen and Ziheng Yang

2026 Balzan Prize for Molecular Evolution: Decoding Patterns of Genomic Change

For their pioneering and complementary contributions to molecular evolution, combining statistical theory, computational methods, and genomic analysis to reveal how natural selection shapes genes and populations, and for developing widely used tools that have transformed the study of evolutionary adaptation.

Laudatio

Rasmus Nielsen: Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley

Ziheng Yang: R.A. Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics at University College –

Director of R.A. Fisher Centre for Computational Biology at UCl

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