Biotechnology & medicine
Cristoph Schaffrath
Discovered an enzyme that could enable environmentally benign production of fluorine-containing compounds such as Teflon and Prozac, which are now made via noxious chemical processes.
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Smruti Vidwans
Development of drugs to assist in the battle against TB.
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Colin Hill
Aims to more than double human trials success rate by virtually prescreening drugs in computer models of human cells.
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Lauren Meyers
Helped public-health officials control epidemics of walking pneumonia and SARS with sophisticated mathematical models that predict how a disease will spread through networks of human interactions.
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Kahp-Yang Suh
Came up with the first method that allows researchers to pattern proteins and cells directly onto glass or plastic surfaces or within microfluidic channels without complicated preparation.