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发帖数: 3279 | 1 it's about time!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/science/new-3-million-prizes-
Eleven scientists, most of them American, were scheduled to be named on
Wednesday as the first winners of the world’s richest academic prize for
medicine and biology — $3 million each, more than twice the amount of the
Nobel Prize.
The award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, was established by four
Internet titans led by Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur and
philanthropist who caused a stir last summer when he began giving physicists
$3 million awards.
The others, whom Mr. Milner described as old friends, are Sergey Brin, a co-
founder of Google; Anne Wojcicki, the founder of the genetics company
23andMe and Mr. Brin’s wife; and Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.
They plan to give five awards annually.
Ms. Wojcicki said the prize was meant to reward scientists “who think big,
take risks and have made a significant impact on our lives.”
“These scientists should be household names and heroes in society,” she
said.
Many of the first winners have done work on the intricate genetics of cell
growth and how it can go wrong to produce cancer. The new prize was
scheduled to be announced at a news conference in San Francisco, along with
the following recipients:
¶Cornelia I. Bargmann, who investigates the nervous system and behavior
at Rockefeller University.
¶David Botstein of Princeton University, who maps disease markers in
the human genome.
¶Lewis C. Cantley of Weill Cornell Medical College, who discovered a
family of enzymes related to cell growth and cancer.
¶Dr. Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands, who has
studied how processes in adult stem cells can go wrong and cause cancer.
¶Dr. Napoleone Ferrara of the University of California, San Diego,
whose work on tumor growth has led to therapies for some kinds of cancer and
eye disease.
¶Titia de Lange, who works on telomeres, the protective tips on the
ends of chromosomes, at Rockefeller University.
¶Eric S. Lander of the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, a leader of the Human Genome Project.
¶Dr. Charles L. Sawyers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who
has investigated the signaling pathways that drive a cell to cancer.
¶Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, who discovered a
protein that suppresses the growth of tumors and devised a model for the
progression of colon cancer that is widely used in colonoscopy.
¶Robert A. Weinberg of M.I.T., who discovered the first human oncogene,
a gene that when mutated causes cancer.
¶Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institutes
in San Francisco, who has done groundbreaking work in developing stem cells.
In an interview, Dr. Lander said he was shocked to win the award, calling it
“a staggering amount of money for a scientist.”
“Their idea seems to be to grab society’s attention, to send a message
that science is exciting, important, cool, our future,” he said. “It’s a
very important message here in the U.S.” Dr. Lander said he would use the
prize money to help pay for new approaches to teaching biology online.
The new awards are in some ways an outgrowth of Mr. Milner’s Fundamental
Physics Prizes. In July, he gave $3 million each to nine theoretical
physicists, and the next round is scheduled to be awarded on March 20 in
Geneva.
But even as Mr. Milner was starting the physics prize, he was thinking of
extending the concept to the life sciences. He reached out to Arthur D.
Levinson, the chairman of Apple and a former chief executive of Genentech,
the biotech company, and Dr. Levinson, in consultation with his colleagues,
helped Mr. Milner select the first Breakthrough winners. These winners will
form a committee that will select future winners, Mr. Milner said.
The founders said their goal was to “move the needle” of public awareness
of scientists who have spent their lives advancing human knowledge.
With so much focus on sports and movie celebrities, Dr. Levinson said, the
prizewinners “can share the stage with the people who on some deeper level
have made important contributions.”
The founders said they hoped to attract more sponsors and increase the
number of annual winners. Anyone can send a nomination to the foundation’s
new Web site.
There are no age or other limits on who can win. Any number of people can
share an award. And in particular, Mr. Milner said, there are no limits on
how many times one individual can win. “If you’re Einstein,” he said, “
you will be getting three.” | q*********a
发帖数: 300 | | b*******n
发帖数: 8420 | 3 老板回来之后觉得人生很有成就，决定让千老加班加点做实验
【在 q*********a 的大作中提到】
: 实验室的千老能分几个包子吃不？
| n***w
发帖数: 2405 | 4 Ferrara离开genentech去ucsd了？？？
我out了。。。。 | j****4
发帖数: 19 | 5 其中一个老板打算将这笔钱中的一部分用于改善实验室的福利
【在 b*******n 的大作中提到】
: 老板回来之后觉得人生很有成就，决定让千老加班加点做实验
| d********r
发帖数: 3279 | 6 哪一个阿？这么好？
【在 j****4 的大作中提到】
: 其中一个老板打算将这笔钱中的一部分用于改善实验室的福利
| D******9
发帖数: 2665 | | c********r
发帖数: 1125 | 8
这里面都是准炸药的大牛吧，华人能达到这个级别的本来就很少（晓东算一个吧，jan&
jan恐怕都差点）
【在 D******9 的大作中提到】
: 没有一个华人？
| c********r
发帖数: 1125 | 9 Hans clevers看来宣传工作做得不错啊，他这个领域的得奖的还是竞争比较激烈的吧。 | c********r
发帖数: 1125 | 10
去年至少还没有听说，他来我们这上课还是打得genetech的
【在 n***w 的大作中提到】
: Ferrara离开genentech去ucsd了？？？
: 我out了。。。。
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