 
	Dr. Yutaka Takahasi helped reduce water-related disasters, Drs. Theodore Friedmann and Alain Fischer were the world’s firsts to propose and clinically prove gene therapy concept
Achievement:
Contribution to development of innovative concept on river basin management and reduction of water-related disasters

Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Achievement:
Proposal of the concept of gene therapy and its clinical applications

Professor of Pediatrics University of California San Diego, School of Medicine

Professor at Collège de France
Director of Institut Imagine, Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades