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Biotechnology & medicine

Shayn Peirce

Models how individual cells in tissues migrate, multiply, and develop during processes such as blood vessel growth. The models should aid tissue engineering and drug development.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Assistant professor, University of Virginia
Region
Global

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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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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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Michael Elowitz

Combines existing genes to build artificial biological pathways, or "circuits," that operate inside cells.
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