University of Sydney’s Edward Holmes wins PM’s science prize for work on coronavirus genome

Holmes honoured for transformative role' in Covid response, while Prof Anthony Weiss takes innovation prize for work on biomaterials to assist wound healing

Prof Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney has won the prime minister's prize for science, for his transformative role in the scientific response to Covid-19".

Holmes, an expert on the evolution of viral diseases, publicly shared the genome sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus for the first time in January last year, publishing it on behalf of a consortium of Chinese scientists.