ELN and hereditary disease: Nonetheless there have been outstanding recipients of both the inaugural award in 2014, Professor Anthony Weiss from Sydney, Australia (whose achievements have been in human tropoelastin and its assembly to make three‐dimensional elastin protein biomaterials to enable human tissue repair), and the award in 2017, Professor Masatoshi Hagiwara from Kyoto, Japan (who has developed novel therapeutic methods manipulating the transcriptome with small chemicals to cure genetic diseases, with applications to cancer treatment).