Dr. Robert Elliot Kahn
BIOGRAPHY Chairman, CEO and President of Corporation for National Research Initiatives Dr. Robert Elliot (Bob) Kahn, born 23 December 1938, is an American internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who, together with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which make up the fundamental architecture at the heart of […]
Professor Sir David Neil Payne, CBE, FRS, FREng
BIOGRAPHY Professor at the University of Southampton and Director of the Zepler Institute for Photonics/Optoelectronics Research Centre. Co-Director, the Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chairman Emeritus of the Marconi Society PI of the National Manufacturing Hub in Future Photonics Prof. Payne is an internationally distinguished research pioneer in photonics, having been in the field […]
Professor Pieter R. Cullis
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: Integrated Nanotherapeutics and University of British Columbia, Canada Pieter R. Cullis, Ph.D. FRSC is the Director of Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the NanoMedicines Research Group, UBC. […]
Professor Drew Weissman
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, an infectious disease expert at Penn Medicine, has been studying RNA for use in vaccines for over 15 years. He has dreamed about the seemingly endless possibilities of treating diseases with custom-made mRNA. However, he didn’t expect […]
Dr Katalin Karikó
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: BioNTech SE, Germany; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA; University of Szeged, Hungary Katalin Karikó was born in 1955 into the family of a butcher in Kisújszállás, a town some 150 kilometers east from Budapest. Karikó went to the local public schools and has praised her […]
