Hürcan Asli Aksoy

Nominated by: Ralf Geber, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Presented by: Ricardo Remus

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Marcus Mall, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Life Sciences. He talked about his role as chair of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical…

Just four crops (maize, rice, wheat, and soybean) provide over 60% of the world’s food. This is a challenge now and a huge risk in the future. Can we be sure that, by themselves, a few “major” crops will nourish over 9 billion people on a warming planet? Our reliance…

The nominating institute CERN on the project: Tello is coordinator of the EU-funded initiative ATTRACT,  which creates breakthrough innovations in detection and imaging. It’s a novel co-innovation scheme that engages research infrastructures, industry, private investors and students in entrepreneurship, using the principles of open innovation and cascade funding.

Our project is aimed to train kids aged (8-14) years coding, so they can be able to program their own programs and games. Also training kids how to design simple educational projects using robots and electronic circuits. We have a cooperation with Iraqi private schools to introduce our courses to…

Sri Harsha Paladugu is addressing the high failure rate of drugs in clinical trials by re-imagining human drug testing using more human-centric models, particularly the Multiple-Organs-on-Chip (MoC) technology. This innovative approach aims to better mimic human physiology, enhance drug safety, and expedite the drug development process, with a current focus…

Nominated by: BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Presented by: Anne Lamp

How Novel Methods in Neuroscience Open up New Horizons in Research and Therapy Beginning ten years ago, Karl Deisseroth and several of his students developed the most disruptive technology neuroscience had seen in a long time. Optogenetics is a method to control single kinds of brain cells with a light-triggered…

The nominating institute Indonesian Research Institute for Biotechnology and Bioindustry on the breakthrough: Today, molecular biology is not always related to transgenesis-based genetic engineering. Genome editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 may revolutionize classic genetic engineering techniques. More than 14,000 international research papers have been published since 2012, and this number…

As the global climate crisis worsens and Russia’s war against Ukraine causes significant global impact, a fundamental shift in geopolitics and energy policy is taking place. Developing new materials is a core element in the innovation cycle to accelerate the process of energy transition. Complex data-driven insights can be leveraged…