Dr. Feng Zhang, the 2016 laureate, has decided to use the grant funds to establish “The Feng Zhang Fund for STEM Education and Outreach,” in order to promote education in biopharmaceutical science.

Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna, the 2016 winner, has decided to use the research grant to study the possibility that human translation can indeed serve as a target for therapeutic development.

Dr. Charpentier, the 2016 laureate, proposes to address the multifaceted immune activation on several fronts concomitantly, with an approach suitable to develop an immunity-focused line of research within the group, taking advantage of the extraordinary expertise in microbiology available.