Past Recipients

2023—Lifetime Achievement Award: Elaine S. Jaffe, MD, National Cancer Institute

2023Mid-Career Investigator Award: Paola Arlotta, PhD, Harvard University

2023Early-Career Investigator Award: Diana Libuda, PhD, University of Oregon Institute of Molecular Biology

2022—Lifetime Achievement Award: Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School 

2022Mid-Career Investigator Award: Sallie R. Permar, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine 

2022Early-Career Investigator Award: Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD, Yale University 

2021—Lifetime Achievement: M. Celeste Simon, PhD, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

2021—Mid-Career InvestigatorValentina Greco, PhD, Yale School of Medicine

2021—Early-Career InvestigatorCigall Kadoch, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School

2020—Lifetime Achievement: Brigid L.M. Hogan, PhD, FRS, Duke University Medical Center

2020—Mid-Career Investigator: Aviv Regev, PhD, HHMI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2020—Early-Career Investigator: Karen A. Schindler, PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2019: Barbara B. Kahn, MD, Harvard University

2018: Lynne Maquat, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center

2017: Diane Mathis, PhD, Harvard Medical School

2016: Bonnie L. Bassler, PhD, Princeton University

2015: Diane Edmund Griffin, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine

2014: Kathryn V. Anderson, PhD, Sloan-Kettering Institute

2013: Terry Orr-Weaver, PhD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

2012: Susan R. Wessler, PhD, University of California, Riverside

2011: Gail R. Martin, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

2010: Susan S. Taylor, PhD, University of California, San Diego

2009: Susan L. Lindquist, PhDHHMI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2008: Mina Bissell, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

2007: Frances A. Arnold, PhD, California Institute of Technology

2006: Elaine Fuchs, PhD, HHMI, The Rockefeller University

2006: Marilyn Farquhar, PhD, University of California, San Diego

2005: Anita Roberts, PhD, National Cancer Institute

2004: Janet Rossant, PhD, Mt. Sinai Hospital

2003: Joan A. Steitz, PhD, HHMI, Yale University

2002: Phyllis M. Wise, PhD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

2001: Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, Harvard School of Public Health and Medicine

2000: Y. Peng Loh, PhD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

1999: Helen M. Blau, PhD, Stanford University

1998: Eva J. Neer, MD, Harvard Medical School

1997: Claude B. Klee, MD, National Cancer Institute

1996: Zena Werb, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

1995: Philippa Marrack, PhD, National Jewish Center

1994: Lucille Shapiro, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

1993: Susan E. Leeman, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine

1992: Bettie Sue (Siler) Masters, PhD, UT Health Science Center

1991: Ellen S. Vitetta, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center

1990: Elizabeth D. Hay, MD, Harvard Medical School

1989: Marian E. Koshland, PhD, University of California, Berkeley