Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences recognizes transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life. Each prize is worth $3 million, making it one of the largest prizes in science.
Laureates & Recipients
5 in registryDavid Liu
Top 1% — EliteChemical Biology
David Liu is a chemical biology specialist with an H-index of 120 at Harvard and the Broad Institute. Invented base edit...
Eric Lander
Top 0.01% — TitanGenomics
Eric Lander is a genomics specialist at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Based in Cambridge....
Huda Zoghbi
Top 0.01% — TitanNeurology
Huda Zoghbi is a neurology and neurogenetics specialist with an H-index of 140 at Baylor College of Medicine. Discovered...
Robert Weinberg
Top 0.01% — TitanOncology
Robert Weinberg is a oncology specialist at MIT. Based in Cambridge....
Svante Paabo
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Svante Paabo is a genetics specialist at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Based in Leipzig....
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