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

Martin Jonikas

Cell biologist Born in France

Martin Jonikas receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for molecular studies on Chlamydomonas, a model photosynthetic organism, with long-term implications for improving food-crop yield and combating climate change.

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2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Yibin Kang

Molecular biologist Born in China

Yibin Kang receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for identifying novel genes involved in cancer metastasis, unraveling dynamic interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironments, and uncovering the role of stem cells, microRNAs, and other noncoding RNAs in cancer.

Yibin Kang
2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science