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Video: Watch the 2020 Prize Ceremony again
![Professor Marja Makarow giving prizes to 2020 Millennium Technology Prize Winners](https://millenniumprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-5-24-millenniumtechnologyprize-award-ceremony-credit-millennium-technology-prize-web.jpg)
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.
Professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman were awarded for their innovation of Next Generation DNA Sequencing that allows fast and cost-effective genome sequencing and is helping fight many diseases, for example Covid-19 and cancer.
The Prize was presented to the winners, professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, by President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö, Patron of the Prize.
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