Nanotechnology & materials
Darrell Irvine
Crafts nanoparticles that would release chemicals inside the body to "program" immune cells to combat viral infections like HIV, to tolerate transplants, or even to destroy malignant tumors.
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LÆtitia Delmau
Helped solve fundamental problems in nuclear-waste treatment
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Rustem Ismagilov
Develops microfluidics technologies that use tiny droplets to characterize the function and structure of proteins and to model complex biochemical processes.
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Michael Strano
Arrived at a new understanding of carbon nanotube surface chemistry.
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Marcel Bruchez
Cofounded Quantum Dot to market the new imaging tool to biologists and drug developers