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A collaboration between the University of Oxford and Thailand’s Mahidol University has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Newton Prize for its project aiming to understand the early stages of scrub typhus in Thailand.

Nick Day and Jeanne Salje potraits in a collage

The Newton Prize is an annual £1 million fund awarded for the best research or innovation that supports the economic development and social welfare of developing countries. Professor Nick Day is in with the chance of winning up to £200,000 from the Prize to be used to advance or develop the work further.

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