Prix Breakthrough 2013 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Bert Vogelstein

   Biologie

   for cancer genomics and tumor suppressor genes.

2. Charles Sawyers

   Biologie

   for cancer genes and targeted therapy.

3. Cornelia Bargmann

   Biologie

   for the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules.

4. David Botstein

   Biologie

   for linkage mapping of Mendelian disease in humans using DNA polymorphisms.

5. Eric S. Lander

   Biologie

   for the discovery of general principles for identifying human disease genes, and enabling their application to medicine through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the human genome.

6. Hans Clevers

   Biologie

   for describing the role of Wnt signaling in tissue stem cells and cancer.

7. Lewis C. Cantley

   Biologie

   for the discovery of PI 3-Kinase and its role in cancer metabolism.

8. Napoleone Ferrara

   Biologie

   for discoveries in the mechanisms of angiogenesis that led to therapies for cancer and eye diseases.

9. Robert A. Weinberg

   Biologie

   for characterization of human cancer genes.

10. Shinya Yamanaka

    Biologie

    for induced pluripotent stem cells.

11. Titia de Lange

    Biologie

    for research on telomeres, illuminating how they protect chromosome ends and their role in genome instability in cancer.