Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge Wins Breakthrough Prize
Harvard Medical SchoolStephen Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been named a 2017 recipient of the Breakthrough Prize, which recognizes paradigm-shifting discoveries in the life sciences, physics and mathematics. Elledge is being honored for his wide-ranging contributions across multiple fields in biology.