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Professor Michael Bollong, Scripps Research
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Previous winners
Current winner: , Scripps Research, USA
2024: , Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
2023: , Australian National University, Australia
2022: , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2021: , GSK and 乐天堂app下载 Francis Crick Institute, UK
2020: , Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
2019: , Duke University, USA
2018: , University of Cambridge, UK
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2016: , University of Dundee, UK
2015: , University of Sydney, Australia
2014: , University of Toronto, Canada
2013: , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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