About the Prize in Life Science & Medicine

Discoveries in the biomedical sciences and innovations in clinical medicine have led to significant victories in our longstanding war against disease and suffering. With the mapping of the entire human genome, we are now closer to the understanding of the mechanisms of life, aging, illness and death, opening up exciting new opportunities for advances in therapeutics. Novel insights in the life science and technological advances in medicine will result in better health and an improved quality of life for the human race in the new century.

The Shaw Laureates in Life Science & Medicine 2025

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Previous Laureates in The Prize in Life Science & Medicine

Wolfgang Baumeister

for his pioneering development and use of cryogenic-electron tomography (cryo-ET), an imaging technique that enables three-dimensional visualisation of biological samples, including proteins, macromolecular complexes, and cellular compartments as they exist in their natural cellular settings.

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Previous Laureates in The Prize in Life Science & Medicine

The Shaw Prize has been awarded to a total of 42 Life Science & Medicine Laureates from 2004 to 2025.

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