Laureate
Titia de Lange
Born 1955 · Netherlands · Female
Awards
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2013
Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences
Biologyfor research on telomeres, illuminating how they protect chromosome ends and their role in genome instability in cancer.
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2014
Canada Gairdner International Award
BiologyFor her discovery of the mechanisms by which mammalian telomeres are protected from deleterious DNA repair and damage responses.