The 2024 Louis-Jeantet Prize Winners

The 2024 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Dirk GÖRLICH, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany, and to Charles SWANTON, Deputy Clinical Director at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK.

Dirk GÖRLICH

Dirk GÖRLICH, of German nationality, is awarded the 2024 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for elucidating how the directionality of cargo transfer between the cytoplasm and nucleus is achieved and for his discovery of the selective FG phase that governs transport through nuclear pores.

Charles SWANTON

Charles SWANTON, of British nationality, is awarded the 2024 Jeantet-Collen Prize for Translational Medicine for his groundbreaking discoveries in cancer genetics and evolution, leading to insights into how tumours evolve, spread, and develop resistance to drugs.