While it’s great that there is a new source of funding for biomedical research, and these are definitely very worthy winners, I question the scale of the awards. “I almost fell over”, said Lewis Cantley, and Cori Bargmann “had to sit down on the floor for a while”. The Guardian interviewed several of the winners, and they’re all just floored by the ridiculous amount of money. Other winners are Cori Bargmann, David Botstein, Lewis Cantley, Titia de Lange, Napoleone Ferrara, Eric Lander, Charles Sawyers, Bert Vogelstein and Robert Weinberg, The Breakthrough Prize was founded by Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sergey Brin (Google) and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, with the goal of supporting research into life extension and curing diseases.Īmong the eleven winners are stem cell researchers Hans Clevers and Shinya Yamanaka. ![]() ![]() Eleven biologists received some unbelievable news this week: They will each receive 3 MILLION dollars from a newly established award.
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