Past Winners
Past winners of the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences include:
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James SpudichStanford University
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Dr. Michael SheetzColumbia University
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Dr. Ronald ValeUniversity of California, San Francisco
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The Eleventh Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences was awarded to Dr. James Spudich, Dr. Michael Sheetz, and Dr. Ronald Vale for explaining how cargo is moved by molecular motors along two different systems of tracks within cells," said Dr. Günter Blobel, Chairman of the awards jury for the Wiley Prize. See Dr. Spudich's PowerPoint presentation from the award ceremony. |
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Dr. Lily Jan and Dr. Yuh Nung JanUniversity California, San Francisco
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Dr. Lily Jan and Dr. Yuh Nung Jan are both Jack and DeLoris Lange Professors at the University of California, San Francisco. They were awarded the tenth annual Wiley Prize for their molecular identification of a founding member of a family of potassium ion channels that control nerve cell activity throughout the animal kingdom |
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Dr. Peter HegemannHumboldt University, Berlin.
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Dr. Georg NagelUniversity of Wuerzburg
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Dr. Ernst BambergMax-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany
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Dr. Hegemann, Dr. Nagel, and Dr. Bamberg were selected for their discovery of channelrhodopsins, a family of light-activated ion channels. |
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Dr. Bonnie BasslerPrinceton University
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The eighth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences is awarded to Dr. Bonnie Bassler of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |
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Dr. Richard P. LiftonYale University School of Medicine
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The seventh annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences was awarded to Dr. Richard P. Lifton of the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Lifton, Chairman of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was chosen for his discovery of the genes that cause many forms of high and low blood pressure in humans. |
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Dr. F. Ulrich HartlMax-Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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Dr. Arthur L. HorwichYale University School of MedicineHoward Hughes Medical Institute
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The sixth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences was awarded jointly to Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl, Director at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, and to Dr. Arthur L. Horwich, Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Hartl and Dr. Horwich were chosen for their elucidation of the molecular machinery that guides proteins into their proper functional shape, thereby preventing the accumulation of protein aggregates that underlie many diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. |
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Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn*University of California, San Francisco
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Dr. Carol W. Greider*The Johns Hopkins University
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The fifth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences was awarded jointly to Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Carol Greider, Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Blackburn and Dr. Greider were chosen for their discovery of telomerase, the enzyme that maintains chromosomal integrity and the recognition of its importance in aging, cancer, and stem cell biology. |
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Dr. Peter WalterUniversity of California, San Francisco
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Dr. Kazutoshi MoriKyoto University, Japan
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The fourth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences was awarded to Dr. Peter Walter, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and to Dr. Kazutoshi Mori, Professor of Biophysics in the Graduate School of Science at Kyoto University, Japan. Dr. Walter and Dr. Mori were chosen for their discovery of the novel pathway by which cells regulate the capacity of their intracellular compartments to produce correctly folded proteins for export. |
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C. David Allis, Ph.D.The Rockefeller University
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The recipient of the third annual Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences was C. David Allis, Ph.D., the recently appointed Joy and Jack Fishman Professor, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics at the Rockefeller University in New York. Dr. Allis was chosen for his significant discovery that transcription factors can enzymatically modify histones to regulate gene activity. |
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Dr. Andrew Z. Fire*Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Johns Hopkins University
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Dr. Craig C. Mello*University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Dr. Thomas TuschlThe Rockefeller University
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Dr. David BaulcombeSainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre
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The winners of the second annual Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences are an international group of investigators: Dr. Andrew Z. Fire, of both the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Craig C. Mello, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Dr. Thomas Tuschl, formerly of the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, and most recently of The Rockefeller University; and Dr. David Baulcombe, of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England. This year's awardees were recognized for their respective contributions to discoveries of novel mechanisms for regulating gene expression by small interfering RNAs (siRNA). |
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Dr. H. Robert Horvitz*Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Dr. Stanley J. KorsmeyerDana Farber Cancer Institute
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The winners of the first annual Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences were Dr. H. Robert Horvitz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Horvitz was selected for his seminal research on programmed cell death and the discovery that a genetic pathway accounts for the programmed cell death within an organism, and Dr. Korsmeyer was chosen for his discovery of the relationship between human lymphomas and the fundamental biological process of apoptosis. Notably, Dr. Korsmeyer's experiments established that blocking cell death plays a primary role in cancer. |
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