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Congratulations to Veena Padmanaban on the Blavatnik Prize and Rockefeller Breakthrough Prize!

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Veena Padmanaban honored with the Blavatnik Regional Award and named Rockefeller’s Breakthrough Prize winner.
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May 15, 2025

Tremendous congratulations to Veena Padmanaban on a remarkable double honor: winning the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists and being named Rockefeller University’s Breakthrough Prize recipient.

These awards recognize Veena’s groundbreaking work identifying a sensory-neuron-driven axis of breast cancer metastasis — a discovery that has opened an entirely new direction in cancer biology. Couldn’t be prouder.

Tavazoie Lab Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology Kravis Research Building The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue · New York, NY 10065

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