https://breakthroughprize.org/News/83
2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Thomas Gasser
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Ellen Sidransky
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
Andrew Singleton
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
For identifying GBA1 and LRRK2 as risk genes for Parkinson’s disease, implicating autophagy and lysosomal biology as critical contributors to the pathogenesis of the disease