Source: KECK School of Medicine • 1996
Michael Berridge in the field of
Signal Transduction • 1997
Judah Folkman in the field of
Growth Factors • 1998
Mark Ptashne in the field of
Regulation of Transcription • 1999
Gunter Blobel in the field of
Protein Trafficking. Blobel won the 1999
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine two months after his receipt of the Massry Prize. • 2000
Leland H. Hartwell in the field of
Cell Cycle. Hartwell won the 2001
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine one year after he received the Massry Prize. • 2001
Avram Hershko and
Alexander Varshavsky in the field of
Proteolysis and the
Ubiquitin System. Hershko won the 2004
Nobel Prize in Chemistry three years after he received the Massry Prize. • 2002
Mario Capecchi and
Oliver Smithies for their pioneering work on
Gene targeting. They won the 2007
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine five years after they received the Massry Prize. • 2003
Roger Kornberg,
David Allis and
Michael Grunstein in the field of
Nuclear Chromatin. Kornberg won the 2006
Nobel Prize in Chemistry three years after he received the Massry Prize. • 2004
Ada Yonath and Harry Nolla in the field of
Ribosomal Structure. Yonath won the 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry five years after she received the Massry Prize. • 2005
Andrew Fire,
Craig Mello and
David Baulcombe in the field of
RNAi. Fire and Mello won the 2006
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine one year after they received the Massry Prize. • 2006
Akira Endo in the field of Novel Therapies specifically for the Discovery of
Statins • 2007
Michael Phelps for the development of the
PET Scan and its Clinical Application • 2008
Shinya Yamanaka,
James A. Thomson, and
Rudolf Jaenisch for their work in the field of
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Yamanaka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine four years after he received the Massry Prize. • 2009
Gary Ruvkun and
Victor Ambros for their work in the field of
Micro RNA. They won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine fifteen years after they received the Massry Prize. • 2010
Randy Schekman for his work regarding the molecular mechanism of defects in secretion that lead to human diseases of development such as
spina bifida. He won the 2013 Nobel in Physiology and Medicine three years after he received the Massry Prize. • 2011
Franz-Ulrich Hartl and
Arthur Horwich for work on
Chaperone-assisted protein folding • 2012
Michael Rosbash,
Jeffrey C. Hall and
Michael W. Young for their studies of the molecular basis of
circadian rhythms. They won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine five years after they received the Massry Prize. • 2013
Michael Sheetz,
James A. Spudich and
Ronald D. Vale for their work defining molecular mechanisms of intracellular motility • 2014
Steven Rosenberg,
Zelig Eshhar and
James P. Allison for their research on T cells. • 2015
Philippe Horvath,
Jennifer Doudna and
Emmanuelle Charpentier for their research on
gene editing. Doudna and Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry five years after they received the Massry Prize. • 2016
Gero Miesenböck,
Peter Hegemann,
Karl Deisseroth for their research on
optogenetics. • 2017
Rob Knight,
Jeffrey Gordon,
Norman R. Pace for their discovery of the
microbiomes. • 2018
Gregg Semenza,
William Kaelin Jr.,
Peter J. Ratcliffe for their work on hypoxia. They won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine less than a year after they received the Massry Prize. • 2019
Ryszard Kole,
Stanley T. Crooke for their seminal work in the development of oligonucleotides targeting messenger RNA as novel therapeutics for a wide range human diseases. • 2021
Svante Pääbo,
David Reich,
Liran Carmel for the discovery of ancient DNA. Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine less than a year after he received the Massry Prize. ==See also==