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      The Vilcek Foundation Prizes are awarded to foreign-born individuals for extraordinary achievement in the arts and sciences.

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      Awarded to immigrants with a legacy of major accomplishments.

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Ibrahim Cissé

Biophysicist
Born in Niger
Ibrahim Cissé receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for using super-resolution biological imaging to directly visualize the dynamic nature of gene expression in living cells.
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2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Amit Choudhary

Chemical biologist
Born in India
Amit Choudhary receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for the identification of a fundamental force integral to the structures of biomolecules like proteins and DNA, and for improvements upon the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
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2019 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Carlos Bustamante

Molecular biologist
Born in Peru
Carlos Bustamante receives the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science for his pioneering single-molecule studies, which enabled the isolation, visualization, and manipulation of individual molecules within cells and revealed insights into the structure and dynamics of key players in cellular processes such as gene expression.
Carlos Bustamante
2012 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

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