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The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a monetary award, funded by internet entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg 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. The Chairman of the Board is Arthur D. Levinson of Apple. The award of $3 million, the largest award in the sciences,〔The Economist. "Take it, Alfred" http://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.〔 ==2013 winners== Eleven inaugural winners were announced in 2013. Each received $3,000,000.〔 *Cornelia I. Bargmann (Rockefeller University), for the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules. *David Botstein (Princeton University), for linkage mapping of Mendelian disease in humans using DNA polymorphisms. *Lewis C. Cantley (Harvard Medical School, Weill Cornell Medical College),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cantley, Lewis C. )〕 for the discovery of PI 3-Kinase and its role in cancer metabolism. *Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute), for describing the role of Wnt signaling in tissue stem cells and cancer. *Titia de Lange (Rockefeller University),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cori Bargmann, Titia de Lange win inaugural Breakthrough Prizes worth $3 million )〕 for research on telomeres, illuminating how they protect chromosome ends and their role in genome instability in cancer. *Napoleone Ferrara (University of California, San Diego), for discoveries in the mechanisms of angiogenesis that led to therapies for cancer and eye diseases. *Eric S. Lander (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute), for the discovery of general principles for identifying human disease genes, and enabling their application to medicine through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the human genome. *Charles L. Sawyers (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charles L. Sawyers, MD )〕 for cancer genes and targeted therapy. *Robert A. Weinberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitehead Institute), for characterization of human cancer genes. *Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto University, J. David Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco), for induced pluripotent stem cells. *Bert Vogelstein (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University), for cancer genomics and tumor suppressor genes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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