Breakthrough Prize 2024: Winners

Recipients

1. Carl H. June

   Biology

   for the development of chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy whereby the patient's T cells are modified to target and kill cancer cells.

2. Sabine Hadida

   Biology

   for developing life-transforming drug combinations that repair the defective chloride channel protein in patients with cystic fibrosis.

3. Thomas Gasser

   Biology

   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.