Lia van der Hoek (AMC) has won the Immuno Valley Award 2014 for her pitch ‘Virus discovery, fast, sensitive and cheap’ at the Immuno Valley Annual Conference 2014. Van der Hoek, associate professor at the Academic Medical Center, developed a technology that enables fast identification of viruses. She already discovered around fifteen new viruses. “In virus discovery things go so fast that in five years time all human viruses may have been identified.”