2017 Japan Prize Honors Trailblazers in Life Science and Cryptography Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna deciphered CRISPR-Cas9, creating a revolutionary tool for editing DNA; Adi Shamir has made significant contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science
Achievement:
Contribution to information security through pioneering research on cryptography
Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Achievement:
Elucidation of the genome editing mechanism by the CRISPR-Cas
Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Berlin)
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
