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Premio Breakthrough · Ciencias de la vida

Premio Breakthrough 2015: Ganadores

Destinatarios

  1. Alim-Louis Benabid

    Biología

    for the discovery and pioneering work on the development of high-frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS), which has revolutionized the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

  2. C. David Allis

    Biología

    for the discovery of covalent modifications of histone proteins and their critical roles in the regulation of gene expression and chromatin organization, advancing the understanding of diseases ranging from birth defects to cancer.

  3. Jennifer A. Doudna

    Biología

    for harnessing an ancient mechanism of bacterial immunity into a powerful and general technology for editing genomes, with wide-ranging implications across biology and medicine.

  4. Victor Ambros

    Biología

    for the discovery of a new world of genetic regulation by microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that inhibit translation or destabilize complementary mRNA targets.