Premio Breakthrough 2021: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Catherine Dulac

   Biología

   for deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.

2. David Baker

   Biología

   for developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention in human diseases.

3. Richard J. Youle

   Biología

   for elucidating a quality control pathway that clears damaged mitochondria and thereby protects against Parkinson's Disease.

4. Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

   Biología

   for discovering that fetal DNA is present in maternal blood and can be used for the prenatal testing of trisomy 21 and other genetic disorders