Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, co-founder of Google Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Voyzhitski established a prize for a breakthrough in the medical reports Guardian.
Zuckerberg, Brin and Milner set up a medical premium / AP
Handing the award, the amount of which $ 3 million will fund Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation.
The prize is awarded for advances in treating disease and prolonging the duration of human life.
The first prize winner will be part of the selection committee, which will evaluate the following nominees.
Manage the fund Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation will be a board of directors which will include Voyzhitski, Zuckerberg and Milner, and led him chairman of Apple Art Levinson.
The first prize winners were named yesterday. One of them was Xingyi Yamanaka, whose work on the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells earlier in 2012 the Nobel committee said.
Another winner was Hans Klevers working in Utrecht and discovered the mechanism of signaling pathway Wnt.
All other winners are now working in the U.S., is a neuroscientist Cornelia Bergman, geneticist David Boltshteyn, oncologist Kentli Lewis, an expert on telomeres Titiya de Langeais, oncologist Napoleon Ferrara, one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project, Eric Lander, an oncologist Charles Sawers, his colleague Bert Fogelshteyn and Robert Weinberg.
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