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.

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.

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.