To all brothers and sisters—we strive to be a synodal Church, always seeking peace, charity, and closeness to those who suffer
Pope Leo XIV | 8 May 2025
Peace be with you! I would like this greeting of peace to enter your hearts, to reach your families and all people
Pope Leo XIV | 8 May 2025
We have to be a missionary Church, building bridges, dialogue, always open to receiving everyone with open arms
Pope Leo XIV | 8 May 2025
PAS Academicians H.M. Blau and J. Doudna win US National Medals
PAS Academician Helen Blau was awarded the National Medal of Science, and PAS Academician Jennifer Doudna was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by US ...
AI and Robotics in Militarized Conflicts – Paper by Joachim von Braun, PAS President
Eminence Cardinal Parolin, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, esteemed colleagues,
It is an honor to address you today on a truly significant occasion: the 75th anniversary of ...
Commemoration of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, former member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Dear Academicians, Colleagues and Friends of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences,
You have certainly heard the sad news of the death of Pope Benedict XVI which occurred in the ...
Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged
Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged was born in 1969 in Axum, Ethiopia and is currently the Donald N. Pritzker Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and ...
Werner Arber
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1978). Academies: European Molecular Biology Organization (1964); European Academy of Arts, ...
Frances Hamilton Arnold
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Membership of Professional Societies: Royal Academy of Engineering (UK); American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and ...
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
Most important awards, prizes and academies
SRE Scientific Prize 2011, IV Simpósio de Reabilitação Esportiva USP-RP; Personalidade da Tecnologia Prize 2011, Sindicato dos ...
David Baltimore
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Awards: First recipient of the Gustave Stern Award in Virology (1970); Warren Triennial Prize from the Massachusetts General ...
Antonio M. Battro
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Awards: Premio Nacional de Ciencias, Psicología y Educación, Argentina (1970); Premio Mira y López, Fund. Getulio Vargas, Rio de ...
David Baulcombe
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National Honour: Knight Bachelor, (Queens Birthday Honours list 2009). Awards: Sir Hans Krebs Medal and Lecture (2021) Federation of ...
Robert Eric Betzig
Most important prizes, awards and academies
1992 William L. McMillan Award; 1993 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research; 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; ...
Helen M. Blau
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1991), Senior Career Recognition Award of WICB, American ...
Thierry Boon-Falleur
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Prix Rik et Nel Wouters pour la recherche sur le cancer (1986); Prix De Vooght d'Immunologie (1986); Cancer Research Institute, ...
Joachim von Braun
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“One World Medal in Gold”, donated by the Federal German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development “for research and service to ...
Luis Ángel Caffarelli
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Professional societies: American Mathematical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986); National Academy of Sciences ...
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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Lab Head and Guest Professor at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna, (2002-04); Lab Head, Assistant ...
Chien-Jen Chen
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Fellowships: Overseas Fellow, American College of Epidemiology, 1989; Fogarty International Research Fellow, US National Institute of ...
Steven Chu
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the Medical ...
Aaron J. Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover was born in Haifa, Israel in 1947. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ...
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Nobel Prize in Physics (1997); Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur; Commandeur de l'Ordre national du mérit; Big Cross of the National ...
Francis S. Collins
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Dr. Collins is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. In recognition of his ...
Suzanne Cory
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Awards: David Syme Prize, University of Melbourne (1982); Lemberg Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ...
Edward M. De Robertis
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Edward De Robertis is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European ...
Stanislas Dehaene
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Fanny Emden Prize, French Academy of Sciences (1996); Jean Rostand Award for the book La Bosse des Maths (1997); James S. McDonnell ...
Francis L. Delmonico
Most important awards, prizes and academies
In 2005, Dr. Delmonico was elected President of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the federally designated Organ Procurement ...
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck
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Van Dishoeck is a (foreign) member or associate of several academies, including Member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (2001), ...
Jennifer A. Doudna
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honorary Doctorates of Science: University of Leuven, 2015; Yale University, 2016; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2017 Hong Kong ...
Gerhard L. Ertl
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honorary Memberships: 2009, Deutscher Hochschulverband; 2008, Dechema (German Society of Chemical Technology); 2008, GDCh (German ...
Elaine Fuchs
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Academic qualifications: University of Illinois, B.S. Chemistry, 1972, Highest distinction in the curriculum; Princeton University, ...
Antonio García-Bellido
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Awards: Principe de Asturias de Investigación Científica, Spain (1984); Leopold Mayer de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, France ...
Reinhard Genzel
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Awards and Honors: 1970 Alfred Maul Medal, Bertold Gymnasium, Freiburg, Germany; 1973 Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des ...
Andrea Mia Ghez
Andrea M. Ghez, professor of Physics & Astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, is one of the world’s leading experts in observational ...
Fabiola Gianotti
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Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh; Corresponding or foreign associate member of the Italian Academy of Sciences (Lincei), the ...
Takashi Gojobori
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Society Prize (Kihara Medal), The Genetic Society of Japan (2005); Society Prize (Motoo Kimura Medal), The Society of Evolutionary ...
Örjan Gustafsson
My fundamental interest is to understand how human activities are perturbing the climate and the related biogeochemical cycle of carbon in the global land-ocean-atmosphere system. ...
Theodor W. Hänsch
Most important awards, prizes and academies
California Scientist of the Year, Calif. Museum of Science and Industry; Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award (1977); ...
Demis Hassabis
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, and entrepreneur.
Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, one of the ...
Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Professor Hassan is the President, Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS), Chairman, Board of Trustees, Almashriq University ...
Edith Heard
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2020 L’Oréal-UNESCO prize for Women in Science International Award 2020 2019 Hansen Family Award, 2019; 2017 Grand Prix of INSERM 2017; ...
Stefan W. Hell
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Study of physics and doctorate University of Heidelberg (1990), postdoc EMBL Heidelberg (1991-1993), Senior Researcher University of ...
Michael Heller
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Awards: Zonn Medal, Polish Astronomical Society for the popularization of science (1986); Templeton Prize (2008). Academies: Ordinary ...
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann is the Chair for Developmental Biology at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study and Emeritus Research Director at CNRS. He dedicated much of his ...
Klaus von Klitzing
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Awards: Schottky Prize (1981); Hewlett Packard Prize (1982); Nobel Prize in Physics (1985); Dirac Medal (1988); Philip Morris Prize ...
Jürgen A. Knoblich
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Societies: 2020 Board of Directors, ISSCR (International Society for Stem Cell Research); 2014 EMBO council, elected member; ...
Eric S. Lander
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Elected Academies: Council on Foreign Relations, 2014; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class of Biosciences, 2013 European Molecular ...
Luis Fernando Larrondo Castro
Dr. Luis Larrondo’s research employs fungi as model organisms to investigate complex biological processes, with a focus on circadian rhythms, photobiology, transcriptional ...
Nicole Marthe C. Le Douarin
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Awards: Academy of Sciences, France; Royal Academy of Belgium; Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Japan; Jeantet Prize in Medicine; ...
Yuan-Tseh Lee
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Fellowships: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1969-71; Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher Scholar Grant, Recipient 1971-4; Fellow, ...
Jean-Marie Lehn
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Awards: Gold Medal of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1981); Gold Medal of the CNRS (1981); Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical ...
Pierre Jean Léna
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Awards: Officier de la Légion d'honneur; Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite; Commandeur de l’Ordre du Lion (Sénégal); Prix Deslandres et ...
Jane Lubchenco
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A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, The World Academy of Science and others, her awards include 22 ...
Juan Maldacena
Most important awards, prizes and academies
2019, Galileo Galilei Medal; 2018, Lorentz Medal; 2018, Richard E. Prange Prize; 2018, Einstein Medal; 2012, Milner Foundation ...
Anming Meng
Dr Anming Meng's lab has focused on mechanisms controlling early embryonic development of vertebrates. Mainly using the zebrafish and the mouse as model systems, the lab has been ...
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Leibniz-Prize, German Research Society (1989); Arthur Burkhardt Prize (1992); Lorenz Oken Medal, Society of German Scientists ...
Masashi Mizokami
My main research is "molecular evolutionary analysis of genomes mutations in various pathogens and hosts and its clinical application.
I graduated from medical school in ...
Erna Möller
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences; Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. Chairman of Karolinska ...
Salvador Moncada
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1994); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, ...
Ryoji Noyori
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Japan Academy Prize (1995); Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (1997); King Faisal International Prize for ...
Tebello Nyokong
Our research is multidisciplinary since it combines aspects of biology (bacterial, viral and fungal inactivation), chemistry (synthesis of the functional nanomaterials, for various ...
José Nelson Onuchic
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honours: 2019 Medal of Honor and Honorary Professor, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; 2019 ...
William D. Phillips
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Awards: Gold Medal, Dept. of Commerce (1993); Michelson Medal, Franklin Institute (1996); Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Steven ...
Stefano Piccolo
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Honors/Awards: 2003: A. Minich Award from Istituto Veneto Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice); 2005: International Swissbridge Award ...
John Charles Polanyi
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society, UK (1962); Steacie Prize for the Natural Sciences (1965); Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the ...
Ingo Potrykus
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Honours: ISPMB International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 2000; American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) ...
Olivier Pourquié
Born on September 1, 1964 in Angouleme (France), he graduated from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (AgroParisTech), with an Engineering degree in 1988. He then ...
Stanley Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner is Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He ...
Didier Queloz
Professor Didier Queloz, FRS, is at the origin of the ‘exoplanet revolution’ in astrophysics when in 1995 during his PhD with his supervisor they announced the first discovery of a ...
Yves Quéré
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Commandeur, Légion d'honneur; Commandeur, Légion d'honneur. Academic Appointments: Chairman, Department of Physics, École ...
Rafael A. Radi Isola
My primary research interests are in biomedicine and biochemistry, focusing on the molecular basis of disease and aging in humans. In particular, I concentrated research efforts ...
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Academies: American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; 2002-date ...
Chintamani N.R. Rao
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Among the various medals, honours and awards received by him, mention must be made of the Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society (1967), ...
Peter Hamilton Raven
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Awards: Distinguished Service Award, American Inst. of Biological Studies (1981); Int. Environmental Leadership Medal of UNEP (1982); ...
Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy
Born on 10 March 1953 in Port Elizabeth (South Africa), he completed a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Cape Town in 1973, followed by a doctorate from ...
Martin John Rees
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Heinemann Prize of Amer. Inst. Phys. (1984); Bappu Medal, Indian Nac. Sci. Acad. (1986); Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society ...
Carlo Rubbia
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Awards: He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Physics (1984). Academies: He is a member of 27 Academies, ...
Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev
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Awards: Lenin Prize (1984); Hero of Socialist Labour (1986); Tate Medal, American Institute of Physics (1992); Science for Peace, Italy ...
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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Awards & Prizes: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber received, inter alia, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2002), the German ...
Wolf Joachim Singer
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Awards: Prize of the IPSEN Foundation (1991); Ernst Jung Prize for Science and Research (1994); Zülch Prize (1994); Hessischer ...
Susan Solomon
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Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2018); Bakerian Prize, Royal Society, UK (2018); BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Prize, ...
Donna T. Strickland
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Honours and awards: 2021 Honorary Member European Academy of Science and Arts; 2020 International Member, National Academy of ...
Cecilia Tortajada
Professor Tortajada has 25 years of research, teaching and consulting experience in water, environment and natural resources management and their interlinkages. She is an expert on ...
Rafael Vicuña
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Honours: Fulbright Foundation, travel fellowship (1974, 1978); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, fellowship for Ph.D. studies ...
Cédric Villani
Most important awards, prizes and academies
He has received several national and international prizes for his research, in particular the Knight of the National Order of Merit ...
Edward Witten
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Dirac Medal, International Center for Theoretical Physics, 1985; Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation, 1985; Fellow, ...
Maryanne Wolf
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Highest awards for use of neuroscience in dyslexia and education: International Dyslexia Association (Geschwind and Orton Awards), ...
Shinya Yamanaka
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards and prizes: JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007); Robert-Koch Preis, Germany (2008); The Special Prize ...
Risks and Opportunities of AI for Children: A Common Commitment for Safeguarding Children
21-22 March 2025
The Impact of AI on the Safety and Dignity of Children Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
SARS-COV-2 Health Policies, Vaccination and Long COVID
19-20 November 2024
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) has been proactive in addressing the science ...
Science for Sustainability and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: Opportunities, Challenges, and AI
23-25 September 2024
It has become ever more evident that humankind deeply impacts Earth systems. The ...
From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience
15-17 May 2024
The Climate Crisis is upon us. It will get lot worse over the next few decades as ...
From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience
Proceedings of a Joint Summit 15-17 May 2024 Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Veerabhadran ...
Astrophysics: The James Webb Space Telescope – From First Light to New World Views
Proceedings of the Working Group 27-29 February 2024 Ewine F. van ...
Food and Humanitarian Crises: Science and Policies for Prevention and Mitigation
Proceedings of the Working Group 9-10 May 2023 Joachim von Braun, Bettina ...
Stem Cells and Their Promise for Regenerative Medicine
Proceedings of the Working Group 5-6 May 2022 Helen M. Blau, Elaine ...
Final Statement of the Workshop on Risks and Opportunities of AI for Children
24 March 2025
Summary The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the World Childhood ...
Final Statement of the Workshop on SARS-COV-2 Health Policies, Vaccination and Long COVID: Achievements and Challenges
23 January 2025
Objectives of the Conference The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) has actively ...
Planetary Call to Action for Climate Change Resilience
16 May 2024
We are a diverse international group of researchers, faith leaders, policymakers, and ...
Final Statement of the Workshop on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and The Sciences: Combining traditional knowledge and sciences for resilience to address climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, health
29 April 2024
Sixty-three participants from thirty-three countries, including many Indigenous ...