Source: Jannsen in New York •
2006: Craig C. Mello, a professor of Molecular Medicine at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Worcester,
MA, and an investigator at the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for his role in the discovery of
RNA interference (RNAi) and the elucidation of its biological functions •
2008: Professor
Marc Feldmann and Emeritus Professor Sir
Ravinder N. Maini of The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology,
Imperial College London, for their role in the discovery of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, or
TNF-alpha, as an effective therapeutic target for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. •
2009: Axel Ullrich, director of the Department of Molecular Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, for his pioneering work in applying
molecular biology and
molecular cloning to the discovery of protein therapeutics for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, including diabetes and cancer. •
2010: Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and
Erik De Clercq, Professor Emeritus,
Rega Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Fauci received the award for his pioneering contributions to basic and clinical research in the areas of
AIDS and other
immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and through his service as the Director of the NIAID. Dr. De Clercq was recognized for his landmark discoveries in
anti-HIV medications, including
nucleotide analogues, and inventions or co-inventions of several approved drugs for
anti-viral therapy. •
2011: Napoleone Ferrara,
Genentech Fellow, for his research on
angiogenesis, the process of new
blood vessel formation that plays a key role in
cancer proliferation and a number of other diseases. Dr. Ferrara’s discoveries opened the door to the development of a new class of therapeutics to combat a serious
eye disorder and contributed to the development of new
oncology therapeutics. •
2012: Victor Ambros, of the
University of Massachusetts Medical School, and
Gary Ruvkun of
Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School, for their collaborative discovery of
microRNAs (miRNAs) as central regulators of gene expression and development. •
2013: David Julius, chair of the Department of Physiology at the
University of California, San Francisco for his discovery of the molecular mechanism that controls thermosensation. •
2014: Emmanuelle Charpentier, Professor at the Hannover Medical School and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Germany and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Sweden and
Jennifer Doudna, a
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Li Ka Shing Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of California, Berkeley, for their work on a new method for precise and facile genomic editing. •
2015: Bert Vogelstein,
Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for his breakthroughs in oncology research. •
2016: Yoshinori Ohsumi, Professor, Frontier Research Center,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, for his pioneering discoveries in the field of
autophagy. •
2017: Douglas C. Wallace, Founder and Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, for pioneering the field of human mitochondrial genetics and its application to the study of disease, aging, and patterns of human migration. •
2018: James P. Allison, Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, for pioneering a novel and effective strategy to harness the immune system for treating solid tumor cancers. •
2019: Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and
Arthur Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics,
Yale School of Medicine and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for their revolutionary insights into chaperone-mediated protein folding. •
2020: Lewis C. Cantley •
2021: Katalin Karikó •
2022: Jeffrey I. Gordon •
2023: Robert Langer •
2024: Lynne Maquat ==See also==