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The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances. [1] [2] The awards are part of several "Breakthrough" initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner and his wife Julia Milner, along with Breakthrough Initiatives and Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
The award of $3 million, the largest award in the sciences, [2] is given to researchers who have made discoveries that extend human life. The Prize is awarded annually, beginning in 2013, with six awards given in each subsequent year. Winners are expected to give public lectures and form the committee to decide future winners. [1]
Hadida has garnered over 30 peer reviewed scientific articles and over 60 U.S. patents. [1] She is the recipient of the 2022 Drug Hunter Award, 2019 Distinguished Scientist Award by the American Chemistry Society, San Diego Chapter, and the 2013 American Chemistry Society Heroes of Chemistry award.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life ...
She also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2012. Bargmann's research was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1995 to 2016. [14] She was the co-chair of the BRAIN initiative and the Head of Science for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. [3] She won the Breakthrough prize in Life Sciences in 2013. [5]
In 2019 he was awarded a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his contributions to the understanding of the RNA gene-splicing process and, in collaboration with fellow Prize Laureate Dr. Frank Bennet of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the development of medical interventions that target the RNA-splicing process, including Spinraza, which is the first treatment for the genetic disorder Spinal ...
Correction, July 25: An earlier version of this story misidentified the name of Google DeepMind's new AI system for solving complex mathematical proofs. It is called AlphaProof not AlphaSolver. It ...
For his work on protein design, Baker has received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2004), [35] the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2004), [36] and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2021). [37] In 2024, Baker was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on protein design; the other half went to John M. Jumper and Demis ...