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Ammodo Science
Award for groundbreaking research2024 -
Ammodo Science Award
The Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research is intended to stimulate potentially groundbreaking research. Such research is usually the result of team work, and for that reason this Award is for research being carried out by a group of researchers working together, and is intended to recognise the contribution of every member of the group. The Award is presented every two years in four scientific domains: Biomedical Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.
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Nomination & Selection
Each edition, the Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research includes a cash prize of 1,600,000 euros for each of the science domains Natural Sciences and Biomedical Sciences and a cash prize of 800,000 euros for each of the science domains Humanities and Social Sciences. The rectors of the fourteen Dutch universities affiliated to Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) may nominate a maximum of one research project per scientific domain.
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Winners
The Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research focuses on potentially groundbreaking research and ensures that all researchers involved in the winning project are recognised and rewarded.
EMBO Gold Medal for Brummelkamp
In 2013 Thijn Brummelkamp was awarded the EMBO Gold Medal. EMBO is an organisation of more than 1,700 researchers which promotes excellence in Life Sciences. The Gold Medal is awarded annually to European scientists under the age of forty who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of molecular biology. Thijn Brummelkamp received the EMBO Gold Medal in recognition of his pioneering work in identifying genes which influence human diseases. You can read here about what lead EMBO to award Thijn Brummelkamp a Gold Medal.
Thijn Brummelkamp
Laureate 2015Thijn Brummelkamp is an energetic, critical and entrepreneurial scientist researching the function of each of the approximately 25,000 genes in the human body. He began by developing a way to turn off each of these genes one by one. Then he invented an even smarter method to do the same with a number of genes at the same time.
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