Premio Breakthrough 2022: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Física Fundamental

   Hidetoshi Katori, Jun Ye

   Física

   For outstanding contributions to the invention and development of the optical lattice clock, which enables precision tests of the fundamental laws of nature.

2. Ciencias de la vida

   Jeffery W. Kelly

   Biología

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

3. Ciencias de la vida

   Katalin Karikó

   Biología

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

4. Ciencias de la vida

   Shankar Balasubramanian

   Biología

   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.

5. Matemáticas

   Takurō Mochizuki

   Matemáticas

   for monumental work leading to a breakthrough in our understanding of the theory of bundles with flat connections over algebraic varieties, including the case of irregular singularities.