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Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.
2005 Innovator of the Year: Kevin Eggan
2005 Humanitarian of the Year: Saul Griffith
Thijn Brummelkamp
Silencing the genes that cause cancer
Martha Bulyk
Discovering how genes are regulated
Matthew DeLisa
Delivering more medicine from microbes
Kevin Eggan
Using cloning to study degenerative diseases
Paul Hergenrother
Discovering drugs that defy convention
Trey Ideker
Defining and advancing systems biology
Hang Lu
Designing microfluidic chips to study cells
Melissa Mahoney
Making materials to treat brain damage
Daniel Riskin
Developing devices for wound closure and early heart-attack intervention.
Shiladitya Sengupta
Delivering drugs to cancer cells