====== Breakthrough Prize Foundation ======

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The **Breakthrough Prize Foundation** is an American nonprofit organization based in [[united_states:california:Menlo Park]], [[united_states:California]]. Its operates alongside [[Breakthrough Initiatives]] and [[Breakthrough Junior Challenge]].

===== Recipients =====

^  Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences  ^^^
^ Name  ^ Year  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Eric Lander]]  | 2013  | "For the discovery of general principles for identifying human disease [[gene|genes]], and enabling their application to [[medicine]] through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the [[human genome]]."((//Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Eric S. Lander.// Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230116154158/https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/2/L32))  |

===== Organization =====

==== Personnel ====

^  Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Board((//Board.// Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://breakthroughprize.org/Board))  ^^^
^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Huda Yahya Zoghbi]]  | Chair  | -  |
| [[Anne Wojicicki]]  | Member  | -  |
| [[Mark Zuckerberg]]  | Member  | Co-founder of [[Facebook]] and [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]]  |
| [[Yuri Milner]]  | Member  | -  |
| [[Cornelia Bargmann]]  | Chair (former)((//Board.// Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved September 11, 2020, from https://archive.ph/Ng9bp))  | -  |

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakthrough-prize-foundation/|LinkedIn]]
  * [[https://twitter.com/brkthroughprize|Twitter]]