Biotechnology & medicine
Rebekah Drezek
Develops photonic technologies that use targeted nanomaterials to detect, monitor, and treat breast and gynecologic cancers painlessly, and at a fraction of the cost of conventional approaches.
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Lei Wang
Expanded the genetic code in order to allow living cells to incorporate new, unnatural building blocks into the proteins that they make.
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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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Vadim Backman
Found a way to spot colon cancer earlier than was previously possible
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David Liu
Applies evolutionary principles to synthetic molecules by linking starting materials to DNA strands.