During the Academy’s Science & the City Gala, where the Awards ceremony was held, Richard Roberts, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993), Chief Scientific Officer of the New England Biolabs, and Blavatnik Awards judge announced the national expansion of the Blavatnik Awards. 2013 Blavatnik Awards honoree Bi-Sen Ding receiving his award Len Blavatnik, head of the Blavatnik Family Foundation, with the 2013 Blavatnik Awards honorees Mercedes Gorre, Executive Director of the Blavatnik Awards, congratulating 2013 honoree Xiankai Sun Ruslan Medzhitov, Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University; Ellis Rubinstein, President & CEO at the New York Academy of Sciences; and Len Blavatnik, head of the Blavatnik Family Foundation Ruslan Medzhitov, winner of the 2007 Blavatnik…