The American Association for Cancer Research will honor the following cancer researchers and physician-scientists during the AACR Annual Meeting 2025, to be held April 25-30 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator David R. Liu was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing two gene-editing technologies—known as base editing and prime editing—which enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation, including those that cause countless human genetic diseases.
