Gloria Berinyuy Tata is addressing the need for improved screening procedures for the early detection of Streptococcus agalactiae, a leading cause of neonatal and maternal sepsis. Her proposed solution involves developing a novel molecular diagnostic tool based on the LAMP-CRISPR-Cas 12 technology, aiming to provide an accurate, affordable, and simple-to-use…

A key driver for all scientific research is humanity’s natural instinct for exploration. We are driven to go where no one has gone before, discover what no one has found, and study what has never been seen. Scientists follow this exploratory instinct in all kinds of directions, whether it’s space,…

The nominating institution HU Berlin on the breakthrough: In his groundbreaking social theory of late-modern society, Andreas Reckwitz works out the causes, structures and conflict-ridden consequences of the transformation from industrial modernity to a late-modern society of singularities. How do the practices and norms of uniqueness mould cognitive-cultural capitalism, digital…

Tatjana Geukens will set up a program for metastatic breast cancer patients to donate liquid and tissue samples rapidly after death for extensive molecular profiling and the generation of tumour models.

Isaac Newton is credited with the famous saying: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” But how did he know which shoulders to stand on? This Falling Walls Circle Round Table examines scientific credibility in two ways: first, by looking at how public…

José Manuel Rojas Díaz is working on addressing the high mortality rate of cervical cancer in Mexican women by developing a novel technology called BiKE (bispecific killer cell engager). This technology is designed to target a specific tumour marker, recruiting and stimulating immune cells (NK cells) to enhance the antitumour…

In the past decades, semiconductor lasers have found their ways into many aspects of everyday live. They are used for fiber internet or in smartphones, but are also found in less obvious areas like in self-driving cars or biological tissue analysis. A reason for their success is that these lasers…

Science Fuse is a social enterprise working to improve the quality of science education among 3- to 14-year-olds. We are working to change how science is perceived and communicated both inside and outside classrooms in Pakistan. We curate informal STEM learning programs, student engagement programs, teacher training and informal science…

The nominating institution Harvard Medical School on the project: If there is a worse disease than ALS, you should hope never to see it. Relentlessly progressive and 100% fatal, it has no treatment. By means of a clever genetic screen, the nominee and his colleagues identified a gene that, when…

Nominated by: Callum Benson, Monash University Presented by: Richard Parsons