Language

Biotechnology & medicine

Lei Wang

Expanded the genetic code in order to allow living cells to incorporate new, unnatural building blocks into the proteins that they make.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Research fellow, University of California, San Diego
Region
Global

The technique could one day allow biologists to create new proteins and even entire organisms that have enhanced or novel properties.

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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.

Global

Frank Lyko

Aims to reprogram cancer cells to be more like normal cells by developing compounds that block the aberrant modification of DNA in cancer cells.

Global

Vadim Backman

Found a way to spot colon cancer earlier than was previously possible

Global

Michael Elowitz

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