He was a co-recipient of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his work on hepatitis C in 2016[1] and of the Gertrude B. Elion Memorial Award from the International Society for Antiviral Research in 2017.
[3] He did a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, followed by work as a research scientist at biotech companies including the Squibb Institute for Medical Research.
Michael J. Sofia is currently the Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Arbutus Biopharma, formerly as OnCore Biopharma prior to its 2015 merger with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals.
[1] He was also awarded the 2016 IUPAC-Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry[6] and the Economist's 2015 Innovation Award in the Bioscience category for the development of sofosbuvir, which was named after Sofia for his contributions to the discovery and development of the drug.
[7] He received the Gertrude B. Elion Memorial Award of the International Society for Antiviral Research (2017).