Meet our Past Winners
Dr. Robert Langer, Sc.D.
David H. Koch Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For his groundbreaking work in designing novel drug delivery systems that can deliver medications continuously, precisely, and at controlled rates over extended periods.
Jeffrey Gordon, M.D.
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor Director, The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
For pioneering discoveries of the role of variation in the gut microbiome in modulating metabolism, health and disease.
Katalin Karikó, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, BioNTech Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery,
University of Pennsylvania
Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D.
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, University of Pennsylvania
For Uncovering Ways to Safely Use mRNAs in Vaccines and Therapeutics.
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D.
of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian
For discovering a new method for precisely manipulating genetic information in ways that should produce new insights in health and disease, and may lead to the discovery of new targets for drug development.
