And the CRISPR science prizes go to…
In case you haven’t heard enough about Wednesday’s CRISPR patent ruling, we decided to tally up the winners in another court: the world of scientific prizes.
Turns out, it’s not so easy to discern who’s ahead in prizes awarded for science related to CRISPR. But dollars and shares are two ways to get a sense. Some awards are announced with prize money amounts; some aren’t.
Jennifer Doudna of the University of California and her chief collaborator, Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany, have won a clutch of prizes, some of them with big money attached.
Feng Zhang of the Broad has bagged big prizes, too, but most haven’t come with cash attached. Three of them he won along with Doudna and Charpentier. Doudna and Charpentier have also shared prizes, one time with three other scientists — though Zhang was conspicuously left out of that grouping.
Maybe worth noting: All three shared what’s commonly called “Canada’s Nobel,” the Gairdner Award, which is one of the prizes people use as portents of the big one.
The breakdown…
