Award for achievements in biomedicine from billionaire IT specialists
Milner, Zuckerberg and Brin have established the largest biomedical award
The names of the first 11 winners, each of whom will receive a prize of three million dollars, are quoted in The Guardian (Breakthrough Prize announced by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs).
According to the prize fund and the principle of awarding prizes, the prize in the field of biomedicine in many ways resembles the Fundamental Physics Prize, created earlier by Yuri Milner. According to the Guardian, Milner became the initiator of the creation of a new award, the costs of which Internet businessmen will share among themselves. The total prize fund this year was $ 33 million.
One of the prize winners was Shinya Yamanaka, whose work on the creation of induced stem cells was noted by the Nobel Committee earlier in 2012. Another winner was Hans Clevers, who works in Utrecht and discovered the mechanism of the Wnt signaling path. All other prize-winners are currently working in the USA, these are neuroscientist Cornelia Bargmann, geneticist David Boltstein, oncologist Lewis Cantley, telomere specialist Titia de Lange, oncologist Napoleon Ferrara, one of the leaders The Human Genome project Eric S Lander, oncologist Charles L Sawyers, his colleagues Bert Vogelstein and Robert Weinberg.
Entrepreneur and investor Yuri Milner graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University with a degree in theoretical physics. He retired from science in 1990 and since then has been engaged in entrepreneurial activities in finance and IT. Recently, together with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Milner invested in Foundation Medicine, a company that deals with cancer diagnostics.
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