Breakthrough Prize Foundation
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation is an American nonprofit organization based in Menlo Park, 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 genes, and enabling their application to medicine through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the human genome.”1) |
Organization
Personnel
| Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Board2) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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)3) | - |
External links
1)
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
2)
Board. Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://breakthroughprize.org/Board
3)
Board. Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved September 11, 2020, from https://archive.ph/Ng9bp