Napoleone Ferrara

Napoleone Ferrara, MD, has been awarded the 2026 Yergin Family International Prize for Biomedical Research. Ferrara is best known for his work on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which led to major anti-angiogenic therapies for cancer and eye disease. The announcement was made by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which hosts the prize. Further details about the award ceremony and the prize committee's reasoning were not immediately available.