Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences Recipients
The Award for Distinguished Research in Biomedical Sciences honors an individual or a team of two individuals for outstanding research in the basic or translational sciences.
Recent recipients:
- 2023 – James Earl Crowe Jr., MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- 2022 – Guillermina “Gigi” Lozano, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- 2021 – Suzanne Topalian, MD, Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
- 2020 – Jean Bennett, MD, PHD and Albert M. Maguire, MD, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (PSOM)
- 2019 – Rafi Ahmed, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
Previous recipients:
- 2018 - Stanley A. Plotkin, MD
- 2017 - Laurie H. Glimcher, MD
- 2016 - Owen N. Witte, MD
- 2015 - Carl H. June, MD
- 2014 - James P. Allison
- 2013 - Huda Akil
- 2012 - Jeffrey I. Gordon
- 2011 - William S. Sly
- 2010 - David Ginsburg
- 2009 - Robert C. Gallo
- 2008 - Max D. Cooper
- 2007 - Seymour J. Klebanoff
- 2006 - Francois M. Abboud
- 2005 - Stuart H. Orkin
- 2004 - Cynthia Kenyon
- 2003 - Aaron J. Shatkin
- 2002 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer
- 2001 - C. David Allis
- 2000 - Ferid Murad
- 1999 - Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
- 1998 - Mario R. Capecchi / Oliver Smithies
- 1997 - David M. Livingston
- 1996 - Stanley B. Prusiner
- 1995 - Solomon H. Snyder
- 1994 - Francis S. Collins
- 1993 - Bert Vogelstein
- 1992 - Bruce M. Alberts
- 1991 - Sheldon M. Wolff
- 1990 - Robert J. Lefkowitz
- 1989 - Sanford L. Palay
- 1988 - Alfred G. Gilman
- 1987 - Joseph Larner
- 1986 - Paul C. Lauterbur
- 1985 - Eric R. Kandel
- 1984 - Michael S. Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein
- 1983 - Philip Leder
- 1982 - Raymond L. Erikson
- 1981 - J. Michael Bishop