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The seventh annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences is awarded to:

Dr. Richard P. Lifton
Chairman of the Department of Genetics, and
Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine,
and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute



Dr. Lifton was chosen for his discovery of the genes that cause many forms of high and low blood pressure in humans.

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Past Winners of
The Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences


2002

Dr. H. Robert Horvitz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        and
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Dana Farber Cancer Institute


2003

Dr. Andrew Z. Fire
Carnegie Institution of Washington
and the Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Craig C. Mello
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Dr. Thomas Tuschl
The Rockefeller University
(formerly of the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany

          and

Dr. David Baulcombe
Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England


2004

C. David Allis, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University


2005

Dr. Peter Walter
University of California in San Francisco
        and
Dr. Kazutoshi Mori
Kyoto University, Japan


2006

Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn
University of California, San Francisco
        and
Dr. Carol W. Greider
Johns Hopkins University


2007

Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl
Director at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Munich, Germany    
and

Dr. Arthur L. Horwich
Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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