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Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine

Wolf Foundation

Description

The aims of the Foundation, as stated by the Law, are :
1. To award prizes to outstanding scientists and artists--irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex or political views--for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples;
2. To award scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students, and grants to scientists engaged in research at Israeli institutions of higher education.

Recipients

The Prize Committee for Medicine has unanimously decided that the 2011 Wolf Prize be jointly awarded to:

Shinya Yamanaka
The J. David Gladstone Institutes - USA
and
Kyoto University - Japan

Rudolf Jaenisch
M.I.T.
and
Whitehead Institute
U.S.A.

For the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) from skin cells (SY) and demonstration that iPS cells can be used to cure genetic disease in a mammal, thus establishing their therapeutic potential (RJ).