Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2024: Winners
Recipients
-
Fundamental Physics
Alexander Zamolodchikov, John Cardy
For profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different branches of physics and mathematics.
-
Life Sciences
Carl H. June
for the development of chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy whereby the patient's T cells are modified to target and kill cancer cells.
-
Life Sciences
Sabine Hadida
for developing life-transforming drug combinations that repair the defective chloride channel protein in patients with cystic fibrosis.
-
Life Sciences
Thomas Gasser
for identifying GBA1 and LRRK2 as risk genes for Parkinson's disease, implicating autophagy and lysosomal biology as critical contributors to the pathogenesis of the disease.
-
Mathematics
Simon Brendle
for transformative contributions to differential geometry, including sharp geometric inequalities, many results on Ricci flow and mean curvature flow and the Lawson conjecture on minimal tori in the 3-sphere.