
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D.
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D.
of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian


Franz-Ulrich Hartl M.D. & Arthur Horwich, M.D.
Franz-Ulrich Hartl M.D.
Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Arthur Horwich, M.D.
Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For their revolutionary insights into chaperone-mediated protein folding.

James Allison, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
For pioneering a novel and effective strategy to harness the immune system for treating solid tumor cancers.

DOUGLAS C. WALLACE, PH.D.
Founder and Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine,University of Pennsylvania, PA, U.S.A.
For pioneering the field of human mitochondrial genetics and its application to the study of disease, aging, and patterns of human migration.

YOSHINORI OHSUMI, Ph.D.
Professor, Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
For discoveries concerning the molecular basis of autophagy, a universal process by which cells digest their own organelles to generate life-saving energy during starvation.

Bert Vogelstein, M.D.
Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics & Therapeutics, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland, U.S.A.
For his breakthroughs in oncology re-search, which have spanned more than two decades and have formed the basis of modern cancer re-search.


Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D.& Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D.
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D. Hannover Medical School and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Germany and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
For their co-discovery of a new method for precisely manipulating genetic information in ways that should produce new insights in health and disease, and may lead to the discovery of new targets for drug development.

David Julius, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
For his discovery of the molecular mechanism that controls thermosensation (sensory perception of temperature) and elucidation of the role this mechanism plays in the sensation of acute and inflammatory pain.


Victor Ambros, Ph.D. & Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D.
Victor Ambros, Ph.D.
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
For their co-discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) as central regulators of gene expression and development

Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.
Genentech Fellow, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
For his research on angiogenesis, the process of new blood vessel formation that plays a key role in cancer proliferation and a number of other diseases.


Erik De Clercq, M.D., Ph.D. & Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Erik De Clercq, M.D., Ph.D.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, Maryland, U.S.A.
For their pioneering work in understanding and combating viral diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS

Axel Ullrich, Ph.D.
Director of the Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich , Germany.
For his pioneering work in applying molecular biology and molecular cloning to the discovery of protein therapeutics for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, including diabetes and cancer.


Marc Feldmann, FMedSci, FAA, FRS & SIR RAVINDER MAINI, FMEDSCI, FRCP, FRS
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London, U. K.
For their role in the discovery of tumor necrosis factor-alpha as an effective therapeutic target for rheumatoid arthritis and other chronic inflammatory conditions.

Craig C. Mello, M.D.
Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worchester, Massachusetts, U. S. A.
For his role in the discovery of RNA interference and the elucidation of its biological functions.