The award ceremony will take place at the Technion on Sunday, November 3, 2019
The Harvey Prize, the most prestigious prize given by the Technion, will be awarded this year in two fields. The award will be given to the three scientists who led the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which is a breakthrough in genetic editing - Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier, Prof. Jennifer Daudena and Prof. Peng Zhang; and to Prof. Papadimitrio Christos Hilarios for his contribution to computer science.
Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier, head of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Pathogens, and Prof. Jennifer Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley, published their historic article in 2012 in the scientific magazine Science, which shows how the bacterial protein Cas9 recognizes targets in DNA and demonstrates the possibility Easily program Cas9 to edit many diverse targets in DNA. Prof. Feng Zhang published in Science in 2013 his historic article on CRISPR-Cas9 as a technology for genomic editing in higher organisms and harnessing the CRISPR-Cas9 system as a programmable RNA system for use in eukaryotic cells.
These dramatic discoveries revolutionized the life sciences and make it possible to edit, repair and rewrite DNA. In the future, they are expected to lead to the development of innovative treatments for diseases and aging.
Prof. Papadimitrio Christos Hilarius is considered the father of algorithmic game theory. He has taught at Harvard, the National Technical University of Athens, Stanford, the University of California San Diego and the University of California Berkeley, and is currently a professor of computer science at Columbia University. He is one of the leading scientists in the theory of computer science and is known mainly for his work in Computational Complexity. Prof. Hilarios is a 2012 Gadel Award winner.
The Harvey Prize, founded in 1971 by Leo Harvey of Los Angeles, is given every year at the Technion for outstanding achievements in science, technology and human health and for outstanding contributions to Middle East peace, society and the economy. Over the years, it was considered a Nobel Prize predictor and more than a quarter of the prize winners later received the Nobel Prize.
The award ceremony will take place as mentioned at the Technion on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 12:00, in the Heller Auditorium (Student Beit Cinema).
On Monday, November 4, the lectures of the award winners will be held at the Technion. Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier and Prof. Peng Zhang will lecture at 09:00 in the auditorium of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering. Prof. Christos Hilarios will lecture at 11:00 in Auditorium 2 in the Taub Building (Faculty of Computer Science), and she will deal with the brain, and especially how molecules, cells and synapses affect thinking, intelligence, language and science.
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