Indian-Origin Chemist Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman Wins 2020 Millennium Technology Prize

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British-Indian Chemist Shankar Balasubramanian along with his colleague David Klenerman from the Cambridge University have been declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize.
The duo have been recognised for development of ever faster and cheaper ways of revolutionary sequencing techniques, which means DNA can now be read in super-fast times.
The Next-Generation DNA Sequencing technology (NGS) developed by the duo will help in fighting killer diseases such as Covid-19 or cancer, better understand crop diseases and enhance food production.
The biennial prize, worth Euro 1 million, is given the Technology Academy Finland. The prize is considered as Finland’s version of the Nobel Science Prizes.