Special prize for innovators from developing countries: The wonderful Esperanza Martínez-Romero, a researcher and head of the Genomic Ecology Program at the Center for Genomic Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Cuernavaca, Mexico for her work in microbial ecology.

Special prize for women innovators: Mary-Claire King! She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1

Mary-Claire says: “We girls are doing this and we invite the young women of Vietnam to join us!”

Now a break to hear Alicia Keys. This girl is on fire! 🔥

Now… The special prize for emerging technology… our very own Sundar Venkatesan and Imityaz Khanday from UC Davis with Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Delphine Mieulet and Raphael Mercier for there development of sexless seeds! Felicitations! innovativegenomics.org/news/rice-br...

And now the $3M grand prize goes to the developers of the HPV vaccine! Aimee Kramer, John Schiller, Maura Gilison and Douglas Lowy who have already prevented disease and saved lives of millions. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...