In 2012, the Blavatnik Family Foundation announced the doubling of the prize money for Laureates and Finalists starting in 2013 and, in 2014, the Foundation established the Blavatnik National Awards as a country-wide competition to identify America’s most brilliant young faculty-rank scientists. 2019 Three women are named Blavatnik National Award Laureates, marking the first time in Blavatnik National Award history that the top prize is concurrently awarded to female scientists in each of the three disciplinary categories.