In many forms of infertility, it has been established that something is going wrong with sperm or egg cells, but exactly what remains unclear. Miguel Leung (1996) is trying to unravel that mystery by closely studying the molecules in these cells. As a structural biologist at the Hubrecht Institute, he combines cryo-electron microscopy with AI to visualise protein structures at a resolution that was previously inaccessible. For his research, he is receiving the Heineken Young Scientists Award for Medical/Biomedical Sciences 2026.
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