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COVID-19 Vaccines Were Rapidly Developed Using DNA Sequencing Technology
Chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman from Cambridge University were awarded the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for the DNA sequencing techniques they developed. Thanks to the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)…Read more ›
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Prize criteria renewed for the 2022 nomination period
The Millennium Technology Prize will be awarded for the next time on 25 October 2022. The call for nominating breakthrough innovations deserving of the Prize will be open between 2…Read more ›
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Video: Watch the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize Winner’s Lecture
Next Generation DNA Sequencing technology Professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman received the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for their innovation of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology that enables fast,…Read more ›
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Video: Watch the 2021 Millennium Innovation Forum event recordings
The Millennium Innovation Forum 2021 was organized as a semi-virtual event in Finland on 19 May 2021. It offered a platform for discussing and exchanging ideas at the interface of revolutionary future technologies and innovations.Read more ›
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2021 Millennium Innovation Forum Report
The first edition of the Millennium Innovation Forum was organized on 19 May 2021 as a tribute to the Millennium Technology Prize. The focus of the Forum was on futuristic…Read more ›
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Space physicist Minna Palmroth begins as our Chair of Board
Minna Palmroth, Professor in computational space physics at the University of Helsinki, begins as Chair of the Board of Technology Academy Finland TAF on 1 June. "The Prize and particularly…Read more ›
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Video: Watch the 2020 Prize Ceremony again
The 2020 Millennium Technology Prize Winner Announcement and Award Ceremony was organized as a semi-virtual event in Finland and live-streamed on 18 May 2021. You can now watch the ceremony recording and learn about one of the world's most important and inspiring innovations!Read more ›
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Fuel from CO2 – Sachin Kochrekar wins the Millennium Pitching Contest
Sachin Kochrekar from the University of Turku has won the first ever Millennium Pitching Contest, our competition for doctoral candidates with a task of solving grand challenges of our time.…Read more ›
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Heavy metal purification from lakes – Aino Kuusi and Nikolai Argatoff win 2021 Millennium Youth Prize
Millennium Youth Prize was organized for the third time in the spring 2021- the competition was about finding the solutions for global sustainable development challenges assigned by the Aalto University…Read more ›
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DNA sequencing pioneers win the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize
British duo Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor David Klenerman have been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.Their Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology means…Read more ›
