Wolf Prize 2021: Winners

Recipients

1. Adrian Krainer

   Biology

   for his fundamental mechanistic discoveries on RNA splicing leading to a world’s first treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

2. Joan A. Steitz

   Biology

   for ground-breaking discoveries on RNA processing and its function.

3. Lynne E. Maquat

   Biology

   For discovering a mechanism that destroys mutant mRNA in cells – non-sense mediated mRNA decay (NMD).