Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences awarded to BIOSS Advisory Board Member
Michael N. Hall, Professor of Biochemistry at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and member of the scientific advisory board of the cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies at the University of Freiburg was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, 2014, on the 12.12.2013 Mountain View, California/ USA.
This award honors Hall for his discovery of target of rapamycin (TOR), a central regulator of cell growth and metabolism. This is the first time that this prize, endowed with three million dollars, has been granted to a scientist in Switzerland. The Breakthrough Prize is sponsored, among others, by internet entrepreneurs including Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook, and Sergey Brin, of Google.
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The award ceremony was broadcasted on the “Sciencechannel”