Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li, a member of US National Academy of Sciences and Academia Sinica and visiting scholar at the Genomics Research Center (GRC), received this year’s prestigious Balzan Prize in genetics and evolution (International Balzan Foundation) with a cash award of US$700,000. Dr. Li is currently a chair professor in Department of Ecology and Evaluation, University of Chicago. His major research interests are focused on the processes and mechanisms of molecular evolution. He is also the co-director of a research program on computational and evolutionary genomics at GRC. See more in http://www.balzan.com/en/preistraeger.