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Joint Laureate in 2010, together with Zygmunt Bauman “works on post-industrial society that have enabled us to understand and interpret the profound sense of the great transformations of our times”.

American biologists Jeffrey I. Gordon and Peter Greenberg and American biochemist Bonnie L. Bassler have been bestowed with the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

40 nominations encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the seventh of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year.

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to discover and develop treatments for diseases considered “neglected” or ignored.

36 nominations encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the sixth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year.

A cult author who has been translated into more than forty languages, according to specialists Murakami is an unnerving writer, with a prose that reveals the influences of authors such as Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Capote and Vargas Llosa

37 nominations encompassing 17 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the fifth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year.

Nicknamed The Philosopher for his strategic racing prowess and ability to focus, Kipchoge is the current Olympic marathon champion. He also holds the world record for this event, set at last year’s Berlin Marathon. With a time of 2:01:09, he cut thirty seconds off the previous record, which he himself had set in this competition in 2018.

Held today in Oviedo.