Winners
Biographies of winners should be accurate and reliable at the time of receiving the prize.
Biographies are not updated to reflect the winners’ further careers.
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Ruixue Wan
Category winner 2018
Ruixue Wan Biography Ruixue Wan earned her bachelor degree majoring in Marine Sciences in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. She […]
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Matthew Savoca
Category winner 2018
Matthew Savoca Biography Growing up in New York City, Matthew became fascinated with the natural world, spurred on by an […]
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Tim Wang
Category winner 2018
Tim Wang Biography Tim Wang received a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. […]
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Christoph A. Thaiss
Grand prize winner 2018
Christoph A. Thaiss Biography Christoph Thaiss studied Molecular Biomedicine, Microbiology, and Immunology at the University of Bonn, Germany, Yale University, […]
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Mijo Simunovic
Category winner 2017
Mijo Simunovic Biography Mijo Simunovic sought higher education in the United States and in France, earning his PhD in theoretical […]
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Kelley Harris
Category winner 2017
Kelley Harris Biography Kelley Harris studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Harvard University and transitioned into genomics during a postgraduate […]
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Stilianos Louca
Grand prize winner 2017
Stilianos Louca Biography As an undergraduate, Stilianos Louca studied physics and mathematics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany, before going on to […]
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Jared Mayers
Category winner 2017
Jared Mayers Biography Jared Mayers is a resident in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, working […]
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Sam Behjati
Category winner 2016
Sam Behjati Biography Originally from Germany, Sam Behjati read medicine at Oxford (2000-2006) and pursued post-graduate clinical training in London, […]
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David Seekell
Category winner 2016
David Seekell Biography David Seekell is an environmental scientist based in Sweden. His research focuses on developing early warning indicators […]
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Canan Dagdeviren
Category winner 2016
Canan Dagdeviren Biography Canan Dagdeviren was born in 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey. As a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow, she received her […]
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Neir Eshel
Grand prize winner 2016
Neir Eshel Biography Neir Eshel, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatry resident at Stanford University, pursuing a career at the interface […]