The 2020 Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.
About Millennium Technology Prize
- The Millennium Prize is awarded by Finland, along with top Finnish academic institutions and industries, and the award has a 21st century outlook, with a strong emphasis on innovation.
- Past winners include Tim Berners-Lee (for implementing the world-wide web) and Frances Arnold (for her work on directed evolution in a laboratory setting).
