This resolves to YES if the Nobel Foundation announces that a Nobel Prize has been awarded to Tufts University biologist Michael Levin.

Resolution criteria

This market resolves to YES if the Nobel Foundation officially announces that a Nobel Prize has been awarded to Tufts University biologist Michael Levin.

• Source of Truth: Official announcements published on NobelPrize.org.

• Timeframe: If the Nobel Foundation announces him as a laureate on or before the market's closing date (1/1/2050), this market will resolve to YES. If no such announcement has occurred by the market's close, it will resolve to NO.

Background

Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and the director of the Allen Discovery Center. His pioneering research lies at the intersection of developmental biology, cognitive science, and computer science. He is best known for his work on bioelectricity—the electrical signals and communication networks that cells use to store and recall anatomical "patterns" to coordinate morphogenesis, tissue repair, and organ regeneration.

Levin's lab has successfully manipulated non-neural bioelectric networks to induce limb regeneration and suppress tumors. His team, in collaboration with Josh Bongard, also engineered "xenobots" and "anthrobots"—the world's first synthetic living robots made from frog and human cells. Because of his paradigm-shifting perspective on cellular collective intelligence and the biological "software" of life, his work has frequently been discussed by peers as Nobel Prize-worthy in Physiology or Medicine.