Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2025: Winners
Recipients
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Fundamental Physics
ATLAS collaboration, CMS collaboration, ALICE collaboration, LHCb collaboration
For detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles, the study of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
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Life Sciences
Daniel J. Drucker
For the discovery and characterization of GLP-1 and revealing its physiology and potential in treating diabetes and obesity.
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Life Sciences
David R. Liu
For developing base editing and prime editing, technologies that edit the DNA of living systems without cutting the DNA double helix, and rewrite segments of genes at their native locations, enabling the correction or replacement of virtually any mutation.
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Life Sciences
Stephen L. Hauser
For establishing the role of B cells in multiple sclerosis and developing B-cell based treatments, and for revealing that Epstein-Barr virus infection is the leading risk for multiple sclerosis.
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Mathematics
Dennis Gaitsgory
for his central role in the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture.