Laureate

Titia de Lange

Born 1955 · Netherlands · Female

Awards

  1. 2013

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

    Biology

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

  2. 2014

    Canada Gairdner International Award

    Biology

    For her discovery of the mechanisms by which mammalian telomeres are protected from deleterious DNA repair and damage responses.