Biotechnology & medicine
Vasilis Ntziachristos
Facilitated noninvasive optical imaging of proteins and other molecules in the body, which could lead to ultraprecise diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.
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Smruti Vidwans
Development of drugs to assist in the battle against TB.
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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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Vadim Backman
Found a way to spot colon cancer earlier than was previously possible
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Michael Elowitz
Combines existing genes to build artificial biological pathways, or "circuits," that operate inside cells.