MMV awards Project of the Year 2020 to Professor David Fidock and team for critical contribution to malaria drug resistance profiling MMV awards Project of the Year 2020 to Professor David Fidock and team for critical contribution to malaria drug resistance profiling Team recognized for transformational impact on MMV’s resistance work over past decade, which is today supporting compound prioritization. 18 Dec 2020 At this year’s MMV Discovery Enabling Biology review meeting on the 30th of November, the discovery team led by Prof. David Fidock, Columbia University and Dr Didier Leroy, MMV, was presented with the 2020 Project of the Year award. The award, selected by MMV’s independent Expert Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC) each year, highlights both the importance and quality of the project, in which potential new antimalarials are profiled to determine their propensity to select for resistance, and the characterization of such resistance, before progressing to human studies.