The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Symposium is being held today at UCSF. The prize recognizes excellence in the field of Life Sciences. In its first year, the foundation awarded 11 prizes across the Life Science field including Cornelia Bargmann, David Botstein, Lewis C. Cantley, Hans Cleavers, Titia de Lange, Eric Lander, Napoleone Ferrara, Charles L. Sawyers, Bert Vogelstein, Robert A. Weinberg and Shinya Yamanaka.
Today, UCSF is honoring the recipients of the 2013 prize with an all-day symposium. They event will highlight the fields of cancer, genetics, neurobiology and stem cell research. Awardees from last year will discuss recent advances in these fields with a special focus on big ideas in human health and disease. In addition, Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will moderate a panel of the 2014 award winners.
For those who can't make it to UCSF today or who were unable to get tickets, here is a link for the live stream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/breakthrough-prize-in-life-sciences-awards-special-symposium
Update:
The 2014 Breakthrough Prizes were announced last night at NASA's Ames Research Center. The laureates will join last year's winners in the selection and judging of future prize winners. The 6 winners for 2014 include:
- Mahlon DeLong (Emory University)--for pioneering work in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease
- Richard Lifton (Yale University)--for identifying genetic determinants that lead to hypertension
- Michael Hall (University of Basel) --for the discovery of the enzyme TOR
- Alexander Varshavsky (CalTech)--for the study of intracellular protein degradation
- James Allison (UT Anderson Cancer Center)--for the development of immunotherapy treatments for cancer
- Robert Langer (MIT)--for the development of controlled drug-release systems and biomaterials
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