Breakthrough Prize 2022: Winners

Recipients

1. Jeffery W. Kelly

   Biology

   for elucidating the molecular basis of neurodegenerative and cardiac transthyretin diseases, and for developing tafamidis, a drug that slows their progression.

2. Katalin Karikó

   Biology

   for engineering modified RNA technology which enabled rapid development of effective COVID-19 vaccines.

3. Shankar Balasubramanian

   Biology

   for the development of a robust and affordable method to determine DNA sequences on a massive scale, which has transformed the practice of science and medicine.