Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a monetary award, funded by internet entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company 23andMe. The Chairman of the Board is Arthur D. Levinson of Apple. The award of $3 million, the largest award in the sciences, 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.

2013

Check all the Awards, Winners and Nominations for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences since 2013.

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2013 Check all the winners of 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. (Click on the Award Name or Winner name to get list of all awards/winners)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Cornelia Bargmann (For the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences David Botstein (For linkage mapping of Mendelian disease in humans using DNA polymorphisms.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Lewis C. Cantley (For the discovery of PI 3-Kinase and its role in cancer metabolism.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Hans Clevers (For describing the role of Wnt signaling in tissue stem cells and cancer.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Titia de Lange (For research on telomeres, illuminating how they protect chromosome ends and their role in genome instability in cancer.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Napoleone Ferrara (For discoveries in the mechanisms of angiogenesis that led to therapies for cancer and eye diseases.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 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.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Charles Sawyers (For cancer genes and targeted therapy.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Robert Weinberg (For characterization of human cancer genes.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Shinya Yamanaka (For induced pluripotent stem cells.)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Bert Vogelstein (For cancer genomics and tumor suppressor genes.)