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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]
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 ...
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.”
He has also received the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research and the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science. In 2023 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, [10] in 2024 the Lasker Award [11] [12] and for 2025 the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. [13] Chen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. [14]
Google DeepMind says it has achieved a breakthrough in building an AI system that can handle complex mathematical problems.. The research division, which is part of Alphabet-owned Google ...
The institution took root as The Biological Laboratory in 1890, a summer program for the education of college and high school teachers studying zoology, botany, comparative anatomy and nature. The program began as an initiative of Eugene G. Blackford and Franklin Hooper , director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the founding ...
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Jan. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- January 8, 2025. On Wednesday, January 8 th, Professor Michel Sadelain, of Canadian origins, was announced the 2025 laureate for King Faisal Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking contributions to Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, a revolutionary cancer treatment that has transformed immunotherapy and inspired advancements ...