Prix Breakthrough · Sciences de la vie

Prix Breakthrough 2022 : lauréats

Destinataires

  1. Jeffery W. Kelly

    Biologie

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

  2. Katalin Karikó

    Biologie

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

  3. Shankar Balasubramanian

    Biologie

    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.