Boston scientists win big at Breakthrough Prizes, dubbed science's Oscars
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Four Boston-area researchers were honored at the 2026 Breakthrough Prize ceremonies: Stuart Orkin and Lee Roberts received Breakthrough Prizes of $3 million each for gene editing and muon physics, while Dillon Brout (Boston University) and Shu-Heng Shao (MIT) were New Horizon Prize recipients, each $100,000, for cosmology and generalized symmetries in quantum field theory. The awards, called the 'Oscars of Science' and cofounded by Zuckerberg and Chan, celebrate long-term breakthroughs—from sickle cell gene-editing therapies to precision cosmology data and new physics ideas.
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- Four Boston-area researchers honored with 2026 Breakthrough Prize, the ‘Oscars of Science’ The Boston Globe
- $3 million prize goes to duo whose research led to first sickle cell CRISPR therapy Live Science
- Physicists share the glory and the wealth after winning $3M for exploring muon mysteries GeekWire
- Stuart Orkin Awarded the 2026 Breakthrough Prize HHMI
- Penn Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness PR Newswire
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