Alina Mendt

ImmunoFeed is a company that plans to use artificial intelligence to predict the mutations a virus will acquire and produce a cheap edible duckweed vaccine in advance before viral zoonoses can occur.

Ready to take a deep dive into the Top 10 breakthroughs in the Physical Sciences category? This Winners Session will take you from the bottom of the ocean all the way to outer space to explore the most remote living environments. Learn about new ways to observe climate-related changes on…

With a tagline, ‘Reporting that seeks to empower’, EnAct addresses two social issues: high levels of energy poverty and low levels of energy literacy. A journalistic project that aims to build understanding of energy, EnAct sees its first challenge of finding ways to ‘engage’ the public in a technical and…

Anne van Aaken initiated a breakthrough in how we think about international law. Focusing on the psychology/behavioral economics of international law and legal theory, she offers a new understanding of compliance, of how cooperation comes about and on the behavior of relevant actors in international law (eg arbitrators and humanitarian…

Giorgi Svanishvili is working on enhancing treatment options for neurological diseases linked to chronic inflammation, such as ALS and MS, by utilising stem cell therapy and a bioinformatics approach to analyse molecular changes and responses. The aim is to identify therapeutic targets and mechanisms of action, leading to the development…

PRESENTED BY Yoji Jokura NOMINATED BY CoreTissue BioEngineering Inc. Tags: Artificial Ligament, Anterior Crucial Ligament, Medical Device

A scalable protein-protein interaction screen helps unraveling the pathogenesis for disease mutations e.g. GLUT1 deficiency syndrome, thereby providing a possible mechanism for a range of other cases.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent cancers globally. A large proportion of people have modifiable risk factors, such as weight and diet. Coffee is the main source of chlorogenic acid, the most abundant polyphenol in natural products. Hernán Villota argues that these polyphenolic compounds could have a preventive…

The demand for Technology Talents is increasing all over the world. According to a study, 700,000 additional technology experts will be needed in 2023 in Germany, but it is estimated that only 10,000 will be educated for these roles. To solve this problem, we have created Techlabs. TechLabs offers especially…

The nominating institute German Center for Research and Innovation in São Paulo on the breakthrough: With Nanox, Simões develops and markets nanostructured inorganic composite antimicrobial materials. He has already proven the efficiency of two products against COVID-19. The US-patented Ag+Fresh was the first to have this property certified, according to…