CLS Innovators of the Year 2012 – Richard Bickerton and Ayaz Najafov April 13, 2012 The College of Life Sciences Innovator of the Year Award for 2012 has been jointly won by two postdoctoral researchers. Dr Richard Bickerton of the Hopkins Lab won for his innovation Quantitative Estimate of Druggability and Dr Ayaz Najafov of the Alessi Lab won for his innovation OLMAT – On Line Mass Spec Data Analysis Tool. The two winners were handed their certificates by Professor Robert Weinberg when he presented this year’s Adam Neville Lecture at CLS on 13 Friday 2012.