Laureate – STUART ORKIN

 

STUART ORKIN

2024
Life Science and Medicine

 

THE SHAW PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 2024


is awarded in equal shares to

SWEE LAY THEIN

STUART ORKIN


for their discovery of the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch, making possible a revolutionary and highly effective genome-editing therapy for sickle cell anemia and β thalassemia, devastating blood diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.

 

21 May 2024


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