The Feltrinelli 2023 international prize for medicine was awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei to Özlem Türeci and Ugur Sahin, to whom we owe the mRna vaccines, such as those used against the Covid-19 pandemic. The two researchers are also the co-founders of the biopharmaceutical company BioNTech. The Academy itself makes it known. “It is an exceptional discovery that has saved many lives during Covid and will save even more when cancer vaccines come into operation”, commented Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi, vice president of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Ioannis (John) Iliopoulos wins the Feltrinelli international prize for Physics, for having proposed the existence of a new type of quark with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani. Among the young winners is the robotics expert Calogero Oddo, to whom we owe the first robotic hand with the sense of touch. The delivery ceremony is scheduled for 23 June in Rome, at the Accademia dei Lincei, during the closing ceremony of the 2022-2023 academic year.
The two international prizes, each of which are worth 100,000 euros, are joined by the young prizes, each worth 50,000 euros: the prize is awarded for bioengineering to Calogero Maria Oddo of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, for environmental chemistry to Raffaele Cucciniello of the University of Salerno and for Epidemiology to Michele Carugno of the University of Milan.
As has been the case since 1950, the Accademia dei Lincei awards prizes dedicated to the entrepreneur Antonio Feltrinelli to those who distinguish themselves for the arts, sciences and letters. Over the years, the prize winners in the physical, mathematical and natural sciences include, among others, Albert Sabin, Luigi Cavalli Sforza and Rita Levi Montalcini.
Source: Ansa
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