Breakthrough Prize 2025: Winners

Recipients

1. Daniel J. Drucker

   Biology

   For the discovery and characterization of GLP-1 and revealing its physiology and potential in treating diabetes and obesity.

2. David R. Liu

   Biology

   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.

3. Stephen L. Hauser

   Biology

   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.