ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award for Longevity

Peter Diamandis

Founder and Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation; Executive Founder, Singularity University.

Peter Diamandis has devoted his life to a single, audacious conviction: that humanity’s greatest challenges are solvable, and that the right incentives can unlock the breakthroughs to prove it. As the founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University, he has spent decades mobilising scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors around problems that others considered too large or too complex to tackle. His $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan competition, designed to restore a decade of healthy human function, reflects a life’s work built on the belief that longer, healthier lives are not just possible but achievable in our lifetime. It is this relentless, forward-facing optimism, backed by rigorous science and global action, that makes his contribution to the future of longevity so enduring.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award for Longevity

Dr Eric Esrailian

Lincy Foundation Chair in Clinical Gastroenterology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Emmy-nominated Film Producer and Co-Founder, California Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy.

Dr Eric Esrailian has built one of the most distinctive careers in modern medicine precisely because he has never accepted that healing happens only in a clinical setting. As a practising gastroenterologist at UCLA and co-founder of the California Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, he has advanced the science of human health from the inside. But it is his parallel commitment to storytelling, advocacy, and humanitarian action that sets him apart: channelling the power of film and public platforms into raising awareness around health, human rights, and the conditions that allow people to live with dignity. He embodies a rare understanding that long-term human wellbeing is shaped as much by culture, compassion, and access as it is by medicine alone.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award for Healthcare

Professor Yap Seng Chong

Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

Professor Yap Seng Chong has given his career to a question that medicine has too often overlooked: what if we focused on the beginning of life, not just the end of illness? As a leading authority in maternal and developmental health, and as Dean of NUS Medicine, he has championed the idea that the foundations of a healthy life are laid long before a person ever needs a doctor. Under his leadership, NUS Medicine has risen to become one of the top medical schools in the world, a reflection of the culture of rigour, purpose, and ambition he has cultivated. His work on life-course and preventive health has influenced how clinicians, researchers, and policymakers think about disease: not as something to be treated, but as something that can, with the right knowledge and commitment, be prevented altogether.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award for Wellness

Roger Gracie

Ten-time Jiu-Jitsu World Champion; Founder, Roger Gracie Academy.

For more than three decades, Roger Gracie has done something that goes far beyond winning. Widely regarded as the greatest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitor in the history of the sport, his ten world titles speak to an almost unparalleled level of technical mastery and mental discipline. But the reason Roger receives this award is not found on a podium. It is found in the thousands of academies, classes, and communities he has helped build around the world, where children, families, and people of all backgrounds come together through the shared values of respect, resilience, and growth. Through his constant advocacy and teaching, he has shown that martial arts at its best is a vehicle for confidence, personal safety, lifelong health, and human connection. That contribution, quietly transformative and genuinely global, is what makes his legacy one that belongs to the world of wellness as much as it does to sport.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award for Music and Health

Renée Fleming

Grammy Award-winning soprano and Artistic Advisor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Renée Fleming has long understood something that science is only now catching up to: that music does not merely move us emotionally, it changes us physiologically. As one of the most celebrated sopranos of her generation, she could have rested on a performance career of extraordinary distinction. Instead, she chose to use her platform to ask harder questions, spearheading Sound Health, a landmark partnership between the Kennedy Center and the National Institutes of Health, that brought together neuroscientists, clinicians, and artists to explore what music genuinely does to the human brain and body. Her edited volume Music and Mind gave that work a lasting voice. Fleming’s contribution matters because she had the courage and credibility to take an intuition shared by millions and turn it into a rigorous, evidence-based movement.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award

Lord Ara Darzi

Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery, Imperial College London; Co-Director, Institute of Global Health Innovation

Lord Ara Darzi has spent a lifetime asking how medicine can be better, safer, and more human. As a pioneer of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, he changed what is possible inside the operating theatre, reducing trauma, accelerating recovery, and expanding access to procedures that once required far greater risk. But his influence has never been confined to surgery alone. As a thinker and reformer deeply invested in how healthcare systems serve their populations, he was entrusted in 2024 with perhaps the most consequential independent review of the NHS in a generation, a diagnosis unflinching in its honesty and direct in its recommendations. It is the combination of clinical excellence and systemic courage that defines his legacy, and that makes his contribution to global health one of rare and lasting significance.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award

Maxim Vengerov

Violinist, Conductor, and UNESCO Artist for Peace

Maxim Vengerov has spent more than five decades reminding the world that music, at its highest level, is not entertainment. It is a form of human communication that transcends language, culture, and circumstance. Widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of the modern era, his performances have moved audiences across the world’s most distinguished concert halls with a depth and emotional intensity that few artists of any generation have matched. But Vengerov has also devoted himself to passing that gift forward, championing music education and using his standing as a UNESCO Artist for Peace to demonstrate what the arts can do for communities, for children, and for the human spirit. His career is a testament to the belief that beauty, pursued with discipline and generosity, is itself a contribution to human health and longevity.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award

Noubar Afeyan

Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Moderna

Noubar Afeyan has built his career on a question most scientists are trained to avoid: what if the assumption is wrong? It is that spirit of radical intellectual honesty that led him to co-found Moderna and to build Flagship Pioneering into one of the most consequential life sciences enterprises in the world, generating over $100 billion in value and advancing more than 50 drugs through clinical development. When the world needed a vaccine in months rather than years, the platform he had spent decades nurturing delivered one. But Afeyan’s significance extends beyond any single breakthrough. He has fundamentally changed how biomedical innovation is conceived, funded, and scaled, and in doing so, has helped create the conditions under which the next generation of life-extending therapies will emerge.

ATOM Lifetime Achievement Award

Mari Elka Pangestu

Economist; Former Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank

Mari Elka Pangestu has devoted her career to a truth that is easy to state but hard to act on: that human health and human prosperity are inseparable. As Indonesia’s Minister of Trade and later as Managing Director at the World Bank, she worked at the intersection of economics, development, and global cooperation to shape the policies and investments that determine whether populations thrive. Her work on trade liberalisation, emerging market development, and multilateral partnership has influenced how governments think about the long-term conditions required for human flourishing. She receives this award because she understood, before many others did, that building healthier societies requires not just doctors and scientists, but the economic frameworks and political will to support them.