Gruber Prize in Genetics
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The Gruber Prize in Genetics is one five, international awards made by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Genetics Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is $500,000.
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.
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation is a U. S. philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City.The foundation has two major activities...
, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Genetics Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is $500,000.
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
- 2011 Ronald W. DavisRonald W. DavisRonald "Ron" W. Davis Ph.D. is Professor of Biochemistry & Genetics, and Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University...
, PhD, Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - 2010 Gerald FinkGerald FinkGerald Fink is an American biologist, who was Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1990-2001. He graduated from Amherst College in 1962 and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965. He then taught at Cornell University where he became a Professor of Genetics. In 1982 he became a...
, PhD, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor at MIT - 2009 Janet RowleyJanet RowleyJanet Davison Rowley is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers....
, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago - 2008 Allan C. SpradlingAllan C. SpradlingAllan C. Spradling is an American scientist and principal investigator at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who studies egg development in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a fruit fly...
, PhD, of the Carnegie Institution for ScienceCarnegie Institution for ScienceThe Carnegie Institution for Science is an organization in the United States established to support scientific research....
and Howard Hughes Medical InstituteHoward Hughes Medical InstituteHoward Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...
(HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics - 2007 Maynard OlsonMaynard OlsonMaynard V. Olson is professor of genome sciences and medicine at the University of Washington. He is a specialist in the genetics of cystic fibrosis, and one of the founders of the Human Genome Project....
of the University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
, a bioinformaticsBioinformaticsBioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
specialist - 2006 Elizabeth BlackburnElizabeth BlackburnElizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
, a cell biologist specializing in telomerTelomerThe word telomer has two distinct, yet related meanings.*Its original meaning is in polymer science, when telomerization results in an extremely small polymer—one whose degree of polymerization is generally between 2 and 5....
s - 2005 Robert Hugh Waterston
- 2004 Mary Claire King
- 2003 David Botstein
- 2002 H. Robert HorvitzH. Robert HorvitzHoward Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.-Life:Horvitz did his undergraduate studies at MIT in 1968, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi...
- 2001 Rudolf JaenischRudolf JaenischRudolf Jaenisch is a biologist at MIT. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating transgenic mice to study cancer and neurological diseases....