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The Future Insight Prize is an award of up to €1 million which has been awarded since 2019 to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the company Merck. The award recognises creative solutions in the fields of health, nutrition and energy.[1]
Awardees
[edit]Recipients to date:[1]
- 2019: Health: James Earl Crowe, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) and Pardis Sabeti (Broad Institute)
- 2020: Health: Stephan Sieber (Technical University of Munich)
- 2021: Nutrition: Ting Lu (University of Illinois) and Steve Techtmann (Michigan Technological University)[2][3]
- 2022: Energy: Tobias J. Erb (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology)[4]
- 2023: Health: Khalid Salaita (Emory University)
- 2024: Health: Lauren Gardner (Johns Hopkins University)
- 2025: Health: Magdalena Götz (Helmholtz Centre Munich)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Future Insight Prize". merckgroup.com. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
- ↑ "Scientists Win $1.2 Million Prize for Research That Could Make Protein Shakes from Plastic Waste". The Wall Street Journal. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
- ↑ "'Generator' Turns Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein". Newsweek. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
- ↑ "Scientists Get $1 Million Prize to Fight Climate Change With 'Photosynthesis 2.0'". The Wall Street Journal. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2025.