 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. Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. 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. Prize Winner Announcement  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.
Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. 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. |