2023

NYX Awards - 2023 Grand Winner Winner: Microverse Studios

Using Water to Design Medicines

Entrant Company

Microverse Studios

Category

Video / Web Based Productions / Medical

Client's Name

Ventus Therapeutics

Country / Region

United States

Experience Level

Agency

Ventus is on the vanguard of a sea change in drug discovery technology. Through a combination of computational analysis of protein structures (the molecules that drugs target) Ventus can predict the shape of potential binding pockets for drugs with unparalleled accuracy. However it doesn’t stop there—they use predictive software to figure out how water flows over the surface of these molecules, how individual water molecules respond, and then use that data to screen colossal numbers of known molecules to identify drug candidates. Results are confirmed in a wet lab and the data used to improve the model, finding potential therapeutic hits in a fraction of the time taken by conventional approaches.
To drive home how strange and new this approach is, materials evocative of meteorite and precious metals were combined with an environment designed to conjure an alien technology, while more conventional representations of computation and analysis were avoided.

Credits

Biomedical Animator, Microverse Studios
Cameron Slayden, MS
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Entrant Company

Groove Jones

Category

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Country / Region

United States

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People & Team
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Entrant Company

WePlay Studios

Category

People & Team / AR/VR Professionals

Country / Region

United States

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Website
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Entrant Company

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Category

Website / Food & Beverage

Country / Region

Canada

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Publications
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Entrant Company

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Category

Publications / Magazine

Country / Region

United States