Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, and Victor Ambros, recipients of 2015 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences.BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE
The 2015 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences recognized six scientists for their achievements in gene editing, gene regulation, and Parkinson’s therapy. The $3 million prizes are sponsored by a group of tech billionaires, including Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sergey Brin of Google. The prizes were awarded earlier this month (November 9) at a televised ceremony in Mountain View, California.
Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Germany and Umeå University in Sweden, and Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were honored for discovering the details of CRISPR, a bacterial antiviral system that has been widely adapted for genetic engineering.
Doudna was “thrilled and shocked and very excited” to learn of the award, she told The ...
