For pioneering applications of chimeric antigen receptors to engineer T cells for adoptive immunotherapy of cancer and autoimmunity
For the vision and generation of computational tools, databases and infrastructure that changed the way biological information can be rapidly and freely exchanged, searched, and analyzed, thus enabling discovery of fundamental biological mechanisms."
For pioneering research work leading to the discovery and development of the mRNA vaccines such as the BioNTech/Pfizer's and Moderna's COVID-19 ones
For the discovery of fundamental pathways and mechanisms that ensure accurate RNA splicing and quality control of gene expression involving RNA
For identifying glucagon-like peptides and the development of these peptides as therapeutics for diabetes and short bowel syndrome
For the development of optogenetics as a way to control the activity of specific circuits in the nervous system, for their understanding and control