If there is one thing Covid-19 genome sequencing scientist Dr Jemma Geoghegan would like to see go viral, it is the demolition of the stereotype of what a scientist looks like.
And it is starting to happen after the University of Otago Rutherford Discovery Fellow was awarded the prestigious Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize yesterday.
Geoghegan is only the second woman to be recognised with the prize.