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Pioneer of the Nobel · When Materials Begin to Be Designed Prof. Omar M. Yaghi 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry · Founder of Reticular Chemistry Omar Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965. At 15, he left for the United States alone. Starting at a community college, he made his way to UC San Diego, earned his PhD at the University of Illinois, and completed postdoctoral work at Harvard — walking step by step into the frontier of materials chemistry. Decades later, the systems he pioneered are being used to answer a deeply practical question: can we extract water from air in extremely arid environments? Behind it lies a larger ambition — can we stop waiting for materials to be accidentally discovered, and instead define what a material needs to do, then create it? Materials don't just get discovered. They can be designed. Traditional material development has always involved extensive trial and error. As the space of possible combinations grows toward infinity, searching through it one experiment at a time can no longer keep pace. Yaghi chose a different path: define the structure and function first — pore size, surface chemistry, molecular connections — then assemble it from clearly defined building blocks. A fundamental shift: from "let's see what we get" to "let's decide what we want, then create it." In 1999, his team synthesized MOF-5 — proving that scientists could systematically create materials with specific properties by design. MOFs went on to become one of the most important research directions in modern materials chemistry. He formalized this into Reticular Chemistry: building materials like assembling molecular-scale blocks, with predictable geometry and stable structure. For the first time, scientists had a systematic method for exploring an enormous material space. Where AI Changes Everything When possible structures expand into the millions, no lab can search through them experimentally. AI predicts structure, properties, and potential applications across the full candidate space — then hands the most promising directions back to experiment. Years of trial and error get compressed. For Yaghi, AI isn't a trend. It's the most powerful tool yet for a philosophy he's held for decades: design before discovery. Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit · October 2026 Omar M. Yaghi will join Nobel laureates, AI researchers, and technology leaders to discuss: as AI enters the core of scientific discovery, what changes in materials, energy, and life sciences? His story matters not just because of a Nobel Prize — but because of what it represents: a paradigm shift already underway. From accidental discovery to deliberate design. From single experiments to AI-accelerated exploration. From papers to real-world impact. How will the next world-changing material be designed? Where will the next breakthrough come from?

Pioneer of the Nobel · When a Single Amino Acid Rewrote the Rules Prof. Benjamin List 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry · Founder of Asymmetric Organocatalysis In 1999, a chemist at Scripps asked a question his field considered almost naive: What if you didn't need the whole protein? What if a single amino acid could do the job? It could. And it did — with 96% precision. That amino acid was proline. Cheap, natural, found in ordinary food. List used it as the only catalyst in a chemical reaction, and it produced exactly the molecular form he wanted. No precious metals. No elaborate machinery. Just one small molecule doing what an entire protein complex was supposed to require. The paper published in 2000 is now one of the most cited in organic chemistry. The 2009 synthesis of Tamiflu — the world's primary flu antiviral — ran on a proline derivative. Lyrica, warfarin, and dozens of other drugs in medicine cabinets worldwide owe their production to the same principle. The Nobel Committee called it the third pillar of asymmetric synthesis — alongside metal catalysts and enzymes. List and David MacMillan shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for establishing it. The real shift was philosophical: the most precise chemistry doesn't always require the most complex tools. This October, Benjamin List joins the Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit in Singapore — alongside Nobel laureates, AI researchers, and global capital asking what science builds next.

CONFIRMED SPEAKER | Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit Prof. Fred Ramsdell — 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine — is joining us this October. Nobel Prize winner. Pioneer of immunology. Co-founder of Sonoma Biotherapeutics. Former Chief Scientific Officer at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Why doesn’t the human immune system attack itself? For decades, scientists have searched for the answer to one of biology’s most fundamental questions: how does the body distinguish between threats and its own healthy cells? Through his groundbreaking research on regulatory T cells (Tregs) and FOXP3, Fred Ramsdell helped reveal the immune system’s natural control mechanism — the process that prevents harmful immune attacks against the body. His discoveries are transforming the future of medicine, opening new possibilities in autoimmune disease treatment, cancer immunotherapy, and next-generation cell therapies. Beyond scientific discovery, he has helped bring immunology from the laboratory toward real-world applications through biotechnology innovation. This October, Prof. Fred Ramsdell joins Nobel laureates, AI leaders, scientists, innovators, and global capital at Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit — exploring how science, intelligence, and biotechnology will shape the future of human health. From understanding the immune system to designing the future of medicine. #NobelHeroes #AIforScience #Singapore2026 #NobelPrize #Medicine #Immunology #Biotechnology #FutureMedicine

A historic scientific institution joins Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit. We are honored to welcome the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Foundation @lindaunobel as an official partner. Since 1951, Lindau has connected the world’s greatest scientific minds with the next generation of researchers. 400+ Nobel Laureates. 36,000+ young scientists. 80+ countries. 70+ years of scientific dialogue. From Nobel Prize discoveries to future breakthroughs, Lindau represents something fundamental: Science advances when generations meet. At Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit, we continue this tradition — bringing together Nobel Laureates, AI pioneers, and global innovators to explore the future of science. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Foundation × Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit