Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Check all the winners of Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Year Winner Winner Work
2013 Cornelia Bargmann For the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules.
2013 David Botstein For linkage mapping of Mendelian disease in humans using DNA polymorphisms.
2013 Lewis C. Cantley For the discovery of PI 3-Kinase and its role in cancer metabolism.
2013 Hans Clevers For describing the role of Wnt signaling in tissue stem cells and cancer.
2013 Titia de Lange For research on telomeres, illuminating how they protect chromosome ends and their role in genome instability in cancer.
2013 Napoleone Ferrara For discoveries in the mechanisms of angiogenesis that led to therapies for cancer and eye diseases.
2013 Eric Lander For the discovery of general principles for identifying human disease genes, and enabling their application to medicine through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the human genome.
2013 Charles Sawyers For cancer genes and targeted therapy.
2013 Robert Weinberg For characterization of human cancer genes.
2013 Shinya Yamanaka For induced pluripotent stem cells.
2013 Bert Vogelstein For cancer genomics and tumor suppressor genes.