Future Insight Prize From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Annual award The Future Insight Prize is an award of up to €1 million which has been awarded since 2019 to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the company Merck. The award recognises creative solutions in the fields of health, nutrition and energy.[1] Recipients to date:[1] 2019: Health: James Earl Crowe, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) and Pardis Sabeti (Broad Institute) 2020: Health: Stephan Sieber (Technical University of Munich) 2021: Nutrition: Ting Lu (University of Illinois) and Steve Techtmann (Michigan Technological University)[2][3] 2022: Energy: Tobias J. Erb (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology)[4] 2023: Health: Khalid Salaita (Emory University) 2024: Health: Lauren Gardner (Johns Hopkins University) 2025: Health: Magdalena Götz (Helmholtz Centre Munich) References 1 2 "Future Insight Prize". merckgroup.com. Retrieved 15 October 2025. ↑ "Scientists Win $1.2 Million Prize for Research That Could Make Protein Shakes from Plastic Waste". The Wall Street Journal. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2025. ↑ "'Generator' Turns Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein". Newsweek. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2025. ↑ "Scientists Get $1 Million Prize to Fight Climate Change With 'Photosynthesis 2.0'". The Wall Street Journal. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2025. Related Articles