Wolf Prize 2016: Winners

Recipients

1. Agriculture

   Trudy Mackay

   Biology

   For pioneering studies on the genetic architecture of complex traits and the discovery of fundamental principles of quantitative genetics with broad applications for agricultural improvements.

2. Chemistry

   Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou

   Chemistry

   For advancing the field of chemical synthesis to the extremes of molecular complexity, linking structure and function and expanding our dominion over the interface of chemistry, biology and medicine.

3. Chemistry

   Stuart Schreiber

   Chemistry

   For pioneering chemical insights into the logic of signal transduction and gene regulation that led to important, new therapeutics, and for advancing chemical biology and medicine through the discovery of small-molecule probes.

4. Medicine

   C. Ronald Kahn

   Biology

   for pioneering studies defining insulin signaling and its alterations in disease.

5. Medicine

   Lewis C. Cantley

   Biology

   for discovery of phosphoinositide-3 kinases and their roles in physiology and disease.

6. Physics

   Yoseph Imry

   Physics

   For pioneering studies of the physics of mesoscopic and random systems.