Nurul Arifah Wahyuni

Over the last year, Patrick Cramer and his team visualized how the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 replicates its RNA genome. Their work revealed the mechanism of the drug remdesivir and enables the development of new antivirals. Cramer is a world leader in the fields of gene transcription and structural biology. Over the…

Retinal prostheses hold the potential to revert blindness in profoundly blind people. However, devices should provide visual perception at high resolution and, most importantly, over a wide visual angle to be valuable in everyday activities. To solve this technological challenge, we have developed and validated a photovoltaic wide-field retinal implant…

EAFIT Children’s University is an informal education and Science Engagement program that was designed to bring academia and research closer to other audiences and to encourage curiosity, create active learning experiences, promote intellectual enjoyment, and foster critical thinking in children. The program proposes to deal with scientific concepts in an…

The nominating institution Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on the breakthrough: Dr Yong-Zhen Zhang was the first to deposit the sequence of SARS-CoV2, the virus causing COVID-19, in a public repository. This catalysed the deposition of other sequences from other scientists. It was this early deposition of the sequence that…

There are certain medical advances that have improved the overall quality of modern life by such degrees that civilisation seems unthinkable without them. Antibiotics certainly fall into this category. Infections that used to be life threatening for the biggest part of human history can now be treated with ease, thanks…

Democracy is at risk. All around the world, democratic states, governments and democratic values that lie at the core of a peaceful and equal society are being weakened and eroded, thus paving the way for anti-democratic sentiments and systems. A historian and anthropologist and Professor at the University of São…

Katerina impressed the jury with her work on “Breaking the Wall of Cardiovascular Diseases”. Her idea of a new technology helps doctors improve surgical procedures that are tailored to the needs of each individual patient and provides optimal treatment for cardiovascular diseases.

PRESENTED BY Silvan Siegrist NOMINATED BY Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V. Tags: Prop Tech, Digitize, Buildings, Clean Tech, Buildings, Energy Efficiency

How Quantum Physics Questions Our Perception of Reality Plato’s famous Parable of the Cave illustrates the idea that human beings will never be able to see the truth until they leave the cave in which they are held prisoners, forced to watch shadows on the dark walls, and seeing only…

Bryan John Magoling is addressing the global issue of breast cancer, which poses a significant threat to women’s lives. His research involves using a genetic reporter called PalmGRET to label and track extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the body, revealing that EVs released by cancers promote tumor growth. By modifying the…