HFSP Nakasone Award
The HFSP Nakasone Award for Frontier Research is an academic award from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), a company founded in 1989 establishment of 14 industrial countries and the European Union to promote " frontier research " (frontier research) in the field of life sciences , based in Strasbourg . The award was launched in 2009 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the HFSP in honor of the Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro for his vision of establishing the HFSP as a program to promote international cooperation and researchers in an early phase of their careers. The award has been presented since 2010. It is endowed with US $ 10,000 and is awarded for scientific achievements that are pioneering and have led to a conceptual breakthrough in global research.
Award winners
- 2010 Karl Deisseroth for his pioneering work on the application of optogenetics as a tool for neurobiological research
- 2011 Michael Elowitz for his work on gene expression noise
- 2012 Gina Turrigiano for their concept of homeostatic synaptic plasticity (homeostatic synaptic plasticity)
- 2013 Stephen Quake for pioneering work on the progress of biological measurement methods
- 2014 Uri Alon for his groundbreaking work on network motifs
- 2015 James J. Collins for innovative work on synthetic gene networks and programmable cells
- 2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their groundbreaking work on the CRISPR / Cas system
- 2017 David Julius for his discovery of the molecular basis of temperature perception in animals
- 2018 Svante Pääbo for his contributions to the hybridization of humans with Neanderthals and Denisova humans and for the development of techniques for paleogenetics
- 2019 Michael N. Hall for the discovery of the important regulator of cell growth, the mTOR
- 2020 Angelika Amon for discovering the cell changes induced by aneuploidy and their contribution to tumor development