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Ibrahim Cissé, wearing a tan suit, against a white backdrop.
2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

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.

Portrait of Amit Choudhary
2019 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.

Carlos Bustamante
2012 Vilcek Prize 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.