The
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a scientific award, funded by internet entrepreneurs
Mark Zuckerberg
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and
Priscilla Chan of
Facebook;
Sergey Brin of
Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Yuri Milner; and
Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company
23andMe
23andMe Holding Co. is a publicly held personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. It is best known for providing a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers provide a saliva sample t ...
.
The award of $3 million, the largest award in the sciences,
[The Economist. "Take it, Alfred" https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/02/science-prizes] is given to researchers who have made discoveries that extend human life. The Prize is awarded annually, beginning in 2013, with six awards given in each subsequent year. Winners are expected to give public lectures and form the committee to decide future winners.
[ The ceremony takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the symposiums alternating between University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, and ]Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
.
Laureates
See also
* Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics[ ]
* Fundamental Physics Prize
* List of biology awards
* List of medicine awards
References
External links
BPLS website
{{Breakthrough Prize laureates
Academic awards
Biology awards
Medicine awards
International awards
Awards established in 2013
Life extension
Russian science and technology awards
Yuri Milner