Maria Hagardt

I have been developing a self-regenerating system of symbiotic microbe-based malaria control. My team recently demonstrated that a Microsporidian symbiont completely blocks the transmission of the malaria parasite by Anopheles mosquitoes. This symbiotic microbe can be disseminated through insect populations and by virtue of sexual and vertical transmission (mother to…

FALLING WALLS FOUNDATION | ANJA KARLICZEK, HELGE BRAUN, EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER, HELGA NOWOTNY, JÜRGEN MLYNEK, SEBASTIAN TURNER, ASTRID FROHLOFF, ADAM LEVY, HERMANN HAUSER, LAURA HELMUTH, MARJA MAKAROW, SHALINI RANDERIA, DANIEL ZAJFMAN, HORST BREDEKAMP, JOËL MESOT, DEBORAH QUAZZO, MELANIE SMALLMAN, STEFAN VON HOLTZBRINCK, KUMSAL BAYAZIT, CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ   Over 900 nominees from…

Over the past decade, the play2PREVENT Lab, using components of social and emotional learning and character development, has developed novel and ground-breaking methods and systems for developing and evaluating videogame interventions, with the input of adolescents at every step of the process, demonstrating significant engagement and impact in the areas…

OK Go Sandbox is a collection of 25+ videos, a website, lesson plans, social media interactions, participatory projects – such as “Art in Space” and “#ArtTogetherNow” – as well as live events that help kids and families explore science, engineering, art, math, and more through the music videos and education…

The nominating institution Chinese Academy of Sciences on the breakthrough: Exploitation of heterosis is one of the most important applications of genetics in agriculture. Dr. Bin Han used an integrated genomic and forward genetic approach to construct a genome map for elite hybrid rice varieties and revealed the genomic architecture…

Prof. Marc Gruber is a leading researcher, focused on bringing new technology to market. He significantly advanced the practice of innovation with the Market Opportunity Navigator (co-developed with his PhD student Sharon Tal) – which helps in the highly critical phase of identifying the best markets for new technology. Launched…

How Cyber Security Research Defends Our Critical Infrastructures The year 2014 saw the biggest cyber bank robbery in history – a Hollywood-style scheme, as researchers described it – which resulted in an estimated total of 1 billion dollars being stolen from more than 100 banks across 30 countries. The financial…

We provide evidence that reducing the distribution of drugs (e.g diclofenac) with proven CV risk in the heart using nanoparticles will reduce their CV complications without compromising the efficacy.   Tags: Bio-Tech, Med-Tech, Health Sciences.

The nominating institution DWIH SAO PAULO on the breakthrough: The German language is known for long words with many consonants. This makes many learners consider German an impossible language to learn let alone pronounce. How can we use our mobile phone to overcome the challenges of learning German? Through the…

HOW PRIMATE NEUROSCIENCE REVEALS THE MECHANISMS OF OUR PERCEPTION Who does not fear attention disorders? How many times have we over-looked what was right before our eyes? Many are the paranoias of a society drowning in a deluge of information. While we know that attention disorders, like attention deficit hyperactivity…