{"id":651,"date":"2017-12-07T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T10:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/winners-of-2018-breakthrough-prizes-aka-oscars-of-science-awarded-3-million\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T05:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:49:43","slug":"winners-of-2018-breakthrough-prizes-aka-oscars-of-science-awarded-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/winners-of-2018-breakthrough-prizes-aka-oscars-of-science-awarded-3-million","title":{"rendered":"Winners of 2018 Breakthrough Prizes aka &#8220;Oscars of Science&#8221; awarded $3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 3, researchers discarded their work clothes for party wear as they attended the annual presentation of the Breakthrough Prizes, also known as the \u201cOscars of Science.\u201d The Breakthrough Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/News\/41\">announced the winners<\/a> of the most lucrative award in science in a gala ceremony attended by academics and Hollywood celebrities at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California. According to the founders, the award ceremony is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0The winners are chosen by a selection committee that comprises prior Breakthrough Prize laureates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, a total of seven $3 million prizes were awarded to physicists, mathematicians, and life sciences researchers. The winners of the 2018 Breakthrough Prizes are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2018 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Joanne Chory<\/strong>\u00a0(Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) for \u201cdiscovering the molecular mechanisms by which plants extract information from light and shade to modify their programs of shoot and leaf growth in the photosynthetic harvest of light\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Don W. Cleveland<\/strong>\u00a0(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at University of California, San Diego) for \u201celucidating the molecular pathogenesis of a type of inherited ALS, including the role of glia in neurodegeneration, and for establishing antisense oligonucleotide therapy in animal models of ALS and Huntington disease\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kazutoshi Mori<\/strong>\u00a0(Kyoto University) for \u201celucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kim Nasmyth<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Oxford) for \u201celucidating the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Peter Walter<\/strong>\u00a0(University of California, San Francisco) for \u201celucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prize will be shared among the 27-member WMAP experimental team for \u201cdetailed maps of the early universe that greatly improved our knowledge of the evolution of the cosmos and the fluctuations that seeded the formation of galaxies.\u201d The team has the following five team leaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Charles L. Bennett<\/strong>\u00a0(Johns Hopkins University)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gary Hinshaw<\/strong>\u00a0(University of British Columbia)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Norman Jarosik<\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lyman Page Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>David N. Spergel<\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prize will be shared for \u201ctransformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal model program in all dimensions\u201d by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Christopher Hacon<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Utah)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>James McKernan<\/strong>\u00a0(University of California, San Diego)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, the Breakthrough Foundation awarded the <strong>New Horizon Prizes<\/strong> worth $10,000 each to recognize seven early career researchers who excel in the fields of mathematics and physics. For mathematics, the award was presented to <strong>Aaron Naber<\/strong> (Northwestern University), <strong>Maryna Viazovska<\/strong> (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne), <strong>Zhiwei Yun<\/strong> (Yale University), and <strong>Wei Zhang<\/strong> (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University). The researchers awarded for their promising work in physics are <strong>Christopher Hirata<\/strong> (Ohio State University), <strong>Andrea Young<\/strong> (University of California, Santa Barbara), <strong>Douglas Stanford<\/strong> (Institute for Advanced Study and Stanford University).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A prize was also handed out to the winner of the <strong>Junior Breakthrough Challenge<\/strong> for effectively communicating a complex scientific concept or theory. <strong>Hillary Diane Andales<\/strong> from Philippines was awarded $400,000 in educational prizes in addition to a scholarship, prize for her science teacher who inspired her, and a science lab for Hillary\u2019s school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congratulations to all the winners!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/breakthrough-prize-awards-top-scientists-with-3-million-each\/\">Breakthrough Prize awards top scientists with $3 million each<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/breakthrough-prize-awards-25-million-to-physicists-life-scientists-and-mathematicians\/\">Breakthrough Prize awards $25 million to physicists, life scientists, and mathematicians<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, researchers discarded their work clothes for party wear as they attended the annual presentation of the Breakthrough Prizes, also known as the \u201cOscars of Science.\u201d The Breakthrough Foundation announced the winners of the most lucrative award in science in a gala ceremony attended by academics and Hollywood celebrities at NASA\u2019s Ames Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[2644,123],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-industry-updates","tag-science-awards"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Winners of 2018 Breakthrough Prizes aka &quot;Oscars of Science&quot; awarded $3 million | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On December 3, researchers discarded their work clothes for party wear as they attended the annual presentation of the Breakthrough Prizes, also known as the \u201cOscars of Science.\u201d The Breakthrough Foundation announced the winners of the most lucrative award in science in a gala ceremony attended by academics and Hollywood celebrities at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California. 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