Gruber Prize in Genetics
The Gruber Prize in Genetics, established in 2001, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
| The Gruber Prize in Genetics | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research |
| Location | Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut |
| Presented by | Gruber Foundation |
| Reward(s) | US$500,000 |
| First awarded | 2001 |
| Website | gruber |
The Genetics Prize honors leading scientists for distinguished contributions in any realm of genetics research. The Foundation’s other international prizes are in Cosmology, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women’s Rights.
Recipients
- 2020 Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
- 2019 Bert Vogelstein (Johns Hopkins Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
- 2018 Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech)[1]
- 2017 Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School[2]
- 2016 Michael Grunstein, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and C. David Allis, Rockefeller Foundation[3]
- 2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany and Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley[4]
- 2014 Victor Ambros, PhD, University of Massachusetts; David Baulcombe, PhD, University of Cambridge; and Gary Ruvkun, PhD, Harvard University
- 2013 Svante Pääbo, PhD
- 2012 Douglas C. Wallace, PhD
- 2011 Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Stanford University
- 2010 Gerald Fink, PhD, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor at MIT
- 2009 Janet Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
- 2008 Allan C. Spradling, PhD, of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics
- 2007 Maynard Olson of the University of Washington, a bioinformatics specialist
- 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist specializing in telomeres
- 2005 Robert Hugh Waterston
- 2004 Mary Claire King
- 2003 David Botstein
- 2002 H. Robert Horvitz
- 2001 Rudolf Jaenisch
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