Johannes Pohlmann

Professor Kevan Shokat at UCSF has achieved a breakthrough in cancer drug discovery.  The protein K-Ras has been described as “undruggable” for almost 40 years since its discovery as the first human oncogene in 1982.  There has been a worldwide hunt for a drug to inhibit its role in cancer,…

The nominating institution University of Helsinki on the breakthrough: Ovaskainen and Abrego have developed a Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities (HMSC) framework, which revolutionizes how data on ecological communities is analysed and interpreted. HMSC allows data integration on species abundances, environmental covariates, species traits, phylogenetic relationships, and the spatio-temporal context. …

An on-site, low-cost infrared spectral analyzer that determines the nutrients present in the soil for 1/26th of the price of other high-tech soil nutrient analyzers available in the market.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Education, Engineering, Food & Agriculture, Green Tech, Social Cohesion, Precision Agriculture.

For refugees around the world, the options to earn an income are often severely limited. Without a work permit, they are often stuck in limbo, displaced and with little money to spare. Yet they have innate talents within them in the form of their language, their story and culture. Aline…

Latent Being is groundbreaking audio-visual artwork that turns Kraftwerk Berlin into an ecosystem of synesthetic interactions by utilizing a cutting-edge deep learning algorithm, styleGAN. Anadol’s collaboration with the mind of a machine interweaves the urban, architectural, societal, and perceptual scales of experience, allowing the audience walk through a dynamic ocean…

Saeka Uchino has tried to establish an effective strategy to improve the immune function of breast milk in both quantity and quality by characterizing the IgA-producing cell lines that she succeeded to establish.

PRESENTED BY Eva Wimmers NOMINATED BY Levensohn Venture Partners Tags: Broadcasting, Media Production

Nominated by: Isabelle Schiffer, Gateway Excellence Start-up Center, University of Cologne Presented by: Slim Chiha

How Micro- and Optoelectronics Lead to Transparent and Paper Transistors If you are happy that your mobile phone does not weigh 1 kilogram and cost $4000 like the first handheld model from 1973, you will appreciate the efforts of Elvira Fortunato, who is working on making technology as cheap and…

Digital Platform of educational ludic challenges. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Covid-19, Digitalisation, Diversity, Education, Environment & Nature, Global Cooperation, Resilience, Science Communication, Social Cohesion.