Prize Recipients

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Mohamed Abou Donia

Chemical biologist
Born in Egypt
Mohamed Abou Donia receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for demonstrating the potential of the human microbiome as a source of novel drugs and uncovering the basis of microbiome-driven drug metabolism.
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2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Kivanç Birsoy

Cell biologist
Born in Turkey
Kıvanç Birsoy receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for developing cutting-edge tools to unravel the altered metabolism of cancer cells and uncovering molecular targets for treatment.
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2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science