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Reinventing the one of the Planet's Oldest Material Resources

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Clues to Alzheimer’s and ALS revealed in the physics of cells

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The Path to Gold

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Harnessing chemistry to improve the human condition

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Mosquitoes are coming: The neuroscience of mosquito blood meals

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5G Networks: The Future of Mobile Communications is Here

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A World Oceans Day Q&A with Dr. Derya Akkaynak

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Sustainable polymers: An Earth Day Q&A with Professor Geoffrey...

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Has Climate Change Made a 'New' Forest Fire? A Q&A with Ecolog...

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Understanding how the microbiome impacts health: A Q&A with Em...

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Watching viruses at work to learn about the Human Cell

Only five common elements, an innovative synthesis procedure, and the potential to turn sunlight into an alternative fuel

The breakthrough in high-dimensional geometry that solved a long-standing mathematical problem and improved machine learning

Kay Tye: Using Neuroscience to Study How the Brain Gives Rise to the Mind

Metamaterials and Photonics: Challenging Laws of Physics for Better Data Transmission, and Invisibility Cloaks, Too!

Mircea Dincă: Targeting Molecules with Tiny Sponges

Reinventing the one of the Planet's Oldest Material Resources: In Conversation with Liangbing Hu

Resolving the World’s Challenges: Learnings from the STS Forum

The Path to Gold

Clues to Alzheimer’s and ALS revealed in the physics of cells

Harnessing chemistry to improve the human condition

5G Networks: The Future of Mobile Communications is Here

Mosquitoes are coming: The neuroscience of mosquito blood meals

Sea-ing the Ocean: A World Oceans Day Q&A with Dr. Derya Akkaynak

Sustainable polymers: An Earth Day Q&A with Professor Geoffrey Coates

Has Climate Change Made a 'New' Forest Fire? A Q&A with Ecologist, Bill Anderegg, PhD

Understanding how the microbiome impacts health: A Q&A with Emily Balskus, National Laureate of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

She invented the world's most accurate atomic clock: A Q&A with Physicist Ana Maria Rey

Antarctic penguin expeditions led Heather Lynch to win the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists

Green Revolution: These Top Scientists are Creating Wood Batteries, Low Carbon Chemicals and Protecting Penguins with Satellites

Coming to America: Foreign-Born Scientists at the Forefront of New Discoveries

Here Are the Women Shaping the Future of Science

Building smarter artificial intelligence systems that doubt themselves - 2013 Blavatnik Regional Winner David Blei of Columbia University says "In principle, it's very powerful. But there are many, many technical challenges."

Did our solar system form in bubbles around a massive star? New theory co-authored by 2017 Blavatnik National Finalist Nicolas Dauphas, Professor at the University of Chicago, in Astrophysical Journal

Breakthrough chemical Mdivi-1 may help fight cocaine addiction thanks to research by Neuroscientist and 2011 Blavatnik Regional Finalist Mary Kay Lobo

How to Turn Your Salad into a Desk Lamp. 3x Blavatnik National Finalist Michael Strano, Prof at MIT speaks to the BBC World Service

2014 Blavatnik Finalist Peng Yin of the Wyss Institute leads Harvard University research team that turns DNA into origami

Love Potion No.9: a mosquito sex protein could be key to controlling mosquito-borne disease such as Zika, dengue, Yellow Fever, and Malaria. Researchers in the lab of 2007 Blavatnik Laureate Leslie Vosshall at Rockefeller Univ published in Current Biology

Why do High-Energy Batteries Fail and Start Fires? '17 Blavatnik National Laureate Yi Cui of Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Lab gets first close-ups of dendrites (finger-like growths) that cause battery failure

Congrats to Prof. Mark Hersam of Northwestern University Engineering and 2017 Blavatnik National Finalist named a 2018 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his nanoelectronic materials and printable graphene inks

CONGRATS! Matthew Becker, 2017 Blavatnik National Finalist of the University of Akron who was awarded a $2 million grant to commercialize a non-opiate degradable polymer mesh designed to control post-surgical pain and avoid addiction to pain pills

2016 and 2017 Blavatnik Finalist Pardis Sabeti of the Broad Institute and Harvard University talks to CBS This Morning about this year's flu vaccine

2010 Blavatnik Regional Winner Prof. Michal Lipson of Columbia University speaks to the Optical Society about exciting possibilities in manipulating physics in the field of optics

"Why did passenger pigeons go extinct?" 2016 Blavatnik Finalist and Evolutionary Biologist Beth Shapiro at the UC Santa Cruz speaks to Ira Flatow of Science Friday

2017 Blavatnik Regional Finalist & theoretical physicist Douglas Stanford at the Institute of Advanced Study wins the 2018 Breakthrough New Horizons Prize in Physics for work on using chaos to better understand links between quantum physics & black holes

3x Blavatnik National Finalist Aydogan Ozcan at UCLA develops a holographic technique that uses deep learning to increase accuracy and improve microscopy, with potential for use in medical diagnostics and other fields in engineering and the sciences

2014 Blavatnik National Laureate Adam Cohen of Harvard University develops a new microscope that provides scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuron communication

Two-time Blavatnik National Finalist (2014, 2015), Jonathan Kagan publishes study in Journal of Immunity on enabling cells to release IL-1, potentially improving the efficacy of vaccines in the future

2016 Blavatnik National Finalist Beth Shapiro Evolutionary Biologist from UC Santa Cruz discovers ancient DNA to extinct horses that roamed North America during last ice age

2016 and 2017 Blavatnik Finalist Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University to be featured in the Boston public art project "Stand with Immigrants," recognizing the contributions of immigrants to the US

Matt Disney, '15, '16, '17 National Finalist in C&EN News for his quest to invent small-molecule drugs that target RNA

2017 Blavatnik Regional Honorees featured in Oncology Times

2017 National Laureate Yi Cui designs fabric that can cool or heat your body

The Royal Society of Chemistry Features Alan Healy, 2017 Regional Finalist, whose groundbreaking research is helping tackle colon cancer

NEWSWEEK features the work of 2017 Regional Finalist Douglas Stanford's work in theoretical physics

The 2017 National Laureates Imagine the Future in the 2017 Fall issue of the New York Academy of Sciences Magazine

2017 Blavatnik Laureate Feng Zheng leads team that develops new version of CRISPR that edits RNA

Blavatnik Scholars Pardis Sabeti and Feng Zhang in FORBES on how to find and sustain breakthrough ideas in science

New research led by 2013 honoree Samie Jaffrey shows that chemical tags on RNA silence X chromosome in females

Learn more about the American Gut Project led by our National Finalist Rob Knight

Ruslan Medzhitov shares the latest findings of his research

Team of researchers, including 2011 honoree Olga Troyanskaya use machine learning algorithm to look for the genetic relationships that could cause autism

Study led by our National Finalist Harmit Malik identifies a mutation in mitochondria that harms males but not females

Michael Rape receives Blavatnik award for young scientists

National Finalist Rob Knight is featured in a short video “From Germ Theory to the Microbiome"

2007 honoree Ruslan Medzhitov on the origin of allergy

Founded by Geoffrey Coates, Novomer announces successful commercial-scale trials of Converge® Polyols in rigid foams

Team of researchers led by 2015 National Laureate Chris Chang found that copper plays a key role in metabolizing fat

2014 National Laureate Marin Soljačić invents new solar cell that taps heat and sunlight

2010 Honoree Agnel Sfeir is among 7 researchers to receive Pershing Square Sohn Prize

National Finalist Matthew Disney pioneers a breakthrough approach to breast cancer treatment

National finalist Rob Knight is part of the team awarded $7.5 million to study gut microbes and sleep

National Finalist Matthew Disney will lead team awarded $2.5 million to advance development of RNA-based therapeutics

Szabolcs Marka and Frans Pretorius awarded Breakthrough Prize for their contributors to the discovery of gravitational waves

National Finalist Aydogan Ozcan is named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Scientists led by National Finalist Phil Baran found a new way to achieve a chemical reaction used in the pharmaceutical, flavor, and fragrance industries

2012 honoree Andrei Bernevig is part of the team that predicted the existence of a new state of matter

Study led by 2010 honoree Michal Lipson demonstrated heat transfer can be made 100 times stronger than has been predicted

2007 honoree Leslie Vosshall is part of the team working to assemble a DNA map that can will help them fight Zika

Interview with National Finalist Ali Khademhosseini

Researchers at MIT led by National Finalist Michael Strano come up with an alternative system for generating electricity

A study led by 2007 honoree Antonio Giraldez points toward future treatments for autism

Team of researchers led by National Finalist Ali Javey creates high-efficiency device in 7 steps

National Finalist Howard Y. Chang and his colleagues at Stanford University discover functional lncRNAs

Team of chemists led by National Finalist Phil Baran develops new technique for making modifications to complex drug molecules

National finalist Harmit Malik and his colleagues solve a century-old evolutionary riddle: How did two related fruit fly species arise from one?

National finalist Luciano Marraffini receives the Hans Sigrist Prize for work on antibiotic resistance

National Finalist Rob Knight says Microbiome field is evolving at 'unprecedented rate'

2008 honoree Ken Shepard and his team created a biological chip powered by energy-generating systems in a cell

National finalist Aydogan Ozcan wins International Commission for Optics Prize

From Postdoc to Faculty: Snapshot of an Epic Transition

From the lab of our national finalist Ali Javey at UC Berkeley: a defect-free, molecule-thick film

"The Gene Hackers": article about CRISPR technology and the research conducted by national finalist Feng Zhang

2012 honoree Bogdan Andrei Bernevig is awarded the 2016 New Horizons in Physics Prize

National finalist Matthew Disney wins prestigious Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award

National finalist Peng Yin launches new company to provide inexpensive access to super-resolution microscopy

National finalist Matthew Disney awarded a prestigious 2015 Pioneer Award

Cell-fate determination by ubiquitin-dependent regulation of translation: research findings by national finalist Michael Rape

National finalist Feng Zhang develops a system to easily and precisely edit genomes

Founded by 2013 honoree Jonathan Fisher, Neurovision creates new technology for visualizing large neuroimaging datasets

Founded by 2014 national laureate Adam Cohen, Q-State Biosciences provides a new approach to preclinical drug development

Founded by national finalist Michael Rape, Nurix announces collaboration with Celgene targeting protein homeostasis for next-generation therapies

National finalist Aydogan Ozcan and his team at UCLA win NSF grant to detect and characterize nanoparticles

More evidence for coming black hole collision: research findings by 2010 honoree Zoltan Haiman

National finalist Ali Khademhosseini to build a microfactory that churns out a formula to produce joint cartilage

Can brain cells be controlled with sound waves? Research findings by 2009 honoree Sreekanth Chalasani

Polymer coating interrupts bacterial conversations: research findings by national finalist Helen Blackwell

How to spawn an “exceptional ring”: research findings by 2014 National Laureate Marin Soljačić

ABC interview with National Finalist Rob Knight

National Finalist Yi Cui wins the 2015 Small Young Innovator Award

Co-founded by our 2008 honoree Saeed Tavazoie 'Rgenix' takes aim at cancer

Another Milestone in Hybrid Artificial Photosynthesis: research findings by 2015 National Laureate Christopher Chang

National Finalist Phil Baran wins the Elias J. Corey Award

Nanotube implants show diagnostic potential: research findings by 2014/2015 National Finalist Michael Strano

2010 honoree Elza Erkip elected Officer of IEEE Information Theory Society

New findings by 2009 honoree Ofer Feinerman show that ants follow any leader to haul heavy loads

Team of UCLA researchers led by National Finalist Aydogan Ozcan create smartphone that reads diagnostic tests

Founded by 2014 National Finalist Yi Cui Amprius is headed to China to make its batteries

Founded by 2014 National Laureate Marin Soljačić WiTricity charges up wireless power competition

2009 Honoree Paul Chirik Appointed Andlinger Center’s Associate Director for External Partnerships

2012 honoree Alison Galvani is youngest faculty member ever appointed to a named professorship @Yale School of Medicine

Team of scientists including our 2015 National Finalist Eric Ford measured the mass and size of a Mars-size planet

2014 honoree Dilek Colak is among the first winners of Tri-Institutional Breakout Award

Researchers at Princeton led by 2009 honoree Paul Chirik found new cobalt-catalyzed route to cyclobutanes

2015 National Finalist Phil Baran devises synthesis of valuable exotic compounds

Team led by 2011 honoree Olga Troyanskaya brings order to big data of human biology

2014 National Finalist Terri Odom & her colleagues develop first liquid nanolaser

2011 honoree Roberto Bonasio from the University of Pennsylvania is named 2015 Searle Scholar!

Adam Cohen lights neural activities with proteins

Ruslan Medzhitov interview: Master immunologist with a controversial answer to why allergies exist

2013 Winner Kristjan Haule and his colleagues at Rutgers are step closer to answering question about the “hidden order”

Interview with 2013 honoree David Blei where he answers questions about topic modeling

Interview with 2014 National Finalist Sarkis Mazmanian about healing microbes and Autism

2011 honoree Johannes Gehrke named ACM Fellow

Synthetic Aesthetics: video of 2014 National Finalist William Shih

National Finalist Aydogan Ozcan created device that converts smartphone into an advanced fluorescence microscope

“Seeking information about a target is often better than seeking the target itself” says our 2009 honoree Sreekanth Chalasani

2013 winner Samie Jaffrey and his colleagues at Weill Cornell found a way to prevent noise-induced hearing loss

Women in STEM "It’s a life experience that got me where I am" 2007 honoree Kathryn Uhrich

Research led by 2007 honoree Leslie Vosshall suggests how mosquitoes evolved an attraction to human scent

New study by 2008 honoree Daphne Bavelier demonstrates that action gamers excel at many tasks

"More researchers are looking at mental illnesses through microbial lens" 2014 National Finalist Sarkis Mazmanian

Blavatnik Awards honoree Geoffrey Coates and his coworkers at Cornell University develop new class of biodegradable thermoplastics

2013 honoree David Blei on uncovering the themes in large collections of documents

A discovery made by 2014 National Finalist Ali Javey promises to be a basis for an advanced type of solar cells

2014 National Finalist Ali Hajimiri on THZ imaging and seeing through walls

Video featuring 2014 National Finalist Ali Khademhosseini: 3D Printed Tissues

2012 Honoree Jason Fridley "Evolutionary Imbalance Hypothesis"

Portrait of a Scientist

2013 honoree David Blei on embracing the science of teaching topics to machines

Announcing Launch of the New Prize for Gifted Croatian Children

Defying physics, 2010 honoree Michal Lipson and her team at Cornell University prove a magnetic field for light

2014 National Finalist Michael Strano is building a new nanogenerator that may give electric cars greater range than they have today

Blavatnik Award honoree Geoffrey Coates wins national chemistry award

Organometallics welcomes new editor-in-chief: 2009 Blavatnik Awards honoree Paul Chirik

2014 National Finalist Yi Cui is working to make a better battery for cellphones & iPods

New tool developed by 2014 National Finalist Adam Cohen allows researchers to stimulate neurons and observe their signals in real time

WiTricity's wireless charging technology is coming soon to mobile devices, electric cars, and more

Blavatnik National Awards finalist Aydogan Ozcan is named 2014 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

Blavatnik National Awards finalist Peng Yin receives ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award

Blavatnik Awards honoree Agnel Sfeir has been selected as a member of the inaugural class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research

Blavatnik Awards honoree Nicholas Stavropoulos is named a 2014-2015 Whitehead Fellow

Blavatnik Awards honoree Alison Galvani: avian flu experiments pose public health risk

Blavatnik Awards honoree Alison Galvani from Yale University comments on SARS-like virus that is spreading across Middle East

Blavatnik Awards honoree Daniela Schiller from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Can neuroscience help us rewrite our most traumatic memories?

New research by Blavatnik Awards honoree Carmala Garzione sheds light on the mystery about the formation of the Andes and other high-elevation mountain ranges

Blavatnik Awards honoree Jun Korenaga from Yale University is named 2014 Guggenheim fellow!

Blavatnik Awards honoree Szabolcs Marka is developing a new kind of mosquito net using solar energy and infrared light

Blavatnik Awards honorees Laura Landweber is a co-recipient of one of only 24 Program Grants awarded worldwide by the Human Frontier Science Program!

Winner of the 2013 Blavatnik Awards David Blei receives prestigious ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences

Blavatnik Awards honorees Leslie Vosshall and Andreas Keller say that human nose can differentiate an almost infinite number of smells - more than a trillion!

Blavatnik Awards honoree Bi-Sen Ding and his colleagues discovered that the cells that line blood vessels of tumors play a very decisive role

Blavatnik Awards honoree Wei Min and his research team developed a general method to image a broad spectrum of small biomolecules

Blavatnik Awards honoree Bogdan Bernevig receives 2014 Sackler International Prize in Physics

Blavatnik Awards honoree Daphne Bavelier describes her work on how video games affect the visual system

Winner of the 2012 Blavatnik Awards Nicholas Stavropoulos awarded fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Research team led by Blavatnik Awards honoree Ken Shepard has demonstrated that integrated circuit technology can be used to study signaling in bacterial colonies

Antonio Giraldez, 2007 Blavatnik Awards honoree, wins 2014 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Assaf Naor, winner of the 2012 Blavatnik Awards will lead the new Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Blavatnik Awards Scientific Advisory Council member is named Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kathryn Uhrich, 2007 Blavatnik Awards honoree is named 2013 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Winner of the 2013 Blavatnik Awards David Blei and his colleagues at Princeton University have developed a method that offers a solution to data overload

Christine Jacobs-Wagner, 2008 Blavatnik Awards honoree, is named Director of the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute

Playing games like GTA5 could bring down car insurance premiums

Michael Hahn, winner of the 2012 Blavatnik Awards, and his colleagues found clues to decades-long coronal heating mystery

President and professor — Salovey and Medzhitov — elected to Institute of Medicine

Daniela Schiller, winner of the 2012 Blavatnik Awards, says every time you recall a memory, it changes, and that can be a useful thing

Wei Min, 2012 Blavatnik Awards honoree, devises Optical Imaging Technique to unlock the mystery of memory

2013 Blavatnik Awards honoree Samie Jaffrey wins ASBMB Young Investigator Award

Blavatnik Awards honoree Antonio J. Giraldez and his team at the Yale School of Medicine have discovered what they believe are the mechanisms that help jump start life

2012 Blavatnik Awards honoree Alison Galvani wins Bellman Prize

Winner of the 2007 Blavatnik Awards Ruslan Medzhitov receives the inaugural Else Kröner Fresenius Award

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2010 Blavatnik Award Winner Discusses Her Work