Rosenstiel Award

Recipients

• 2019 David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for their remarkable contributions to our understanding of the sensations of temperature, pain and touch
• 2018 Stephen C. Harrison, for his fundamental and far-reaching studies of protein structure using X-ray crystallography
• 2017 Titia de Lange, for her elucidation of the protection of telomeres and the maintenance of genome stability
• 2016 Susan Lindquist, in recognition of her pioneering work on the mechanisms of protein folding and the severe consequences of protein misfolding that are manifest in disease
• 2015 Yoshinori Ohsumi, in recognition of his pioneering discoveries of molecular pathways and biological functions of protein degradation by autophagy
• 2014 Frederick Alt, in recognition of his pioneering work in elucidating the mechanisms of genome rearrangements in immune and cancer cells
• 2013 Winfried Denk, David Tank and Watt W. Webb, in recognition of their invention of multiphoton fluorescence microscopy and its application to illuminating the function of brain microcircuits
• 2012 Stephen J. Elledge, for elucidating how eukaryotic cells sense and respond to DNA damage
• 2011 Nahum Sonenberg, for his transformative studies of the control of protein synthesis in mammalian cells
• 2010 C. David Allis and Michael Grunstein, for their discovery that histones and histone acetylation directly regulate transcription
• 2009 Jules Hoffman and Ruslan Medzhitov, for elucidating the mechanisms of innate immunity
• 2008 John Gurdon, Irving Weissman and Shinya Yamanaka, for their pioneering work in the field of stem cell research
• 2007 F.-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur L. Horwich, for their pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding
• 2006 Mary F. Lyon, Davor Solter and Azim Surani, for their pioneering work on epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian embryos
• 2005 Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, for their pioneering development of powerful new tools that allow the direct visualization of molecules in living cells
• 2004 Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their pioneering achievements in the discovery of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
• 2003 Masakazu Konishi, Peter Marler and Fernando Nottebohm, for their pioneering achievements in the ethology and neurology of birdsong
• 2002 Ira Herskowitz, for his pioneering achievements in yeast genetics and cell biology
• 2001 Joan A. Steitz, for her work in establishing a sub-field of molecular biology concerning small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
• 2000 Peter B. Moore, Harry F. Noller, Jr. and Thomas A. Steitz, for their discovery that peptide bond formation on the ribosome is catalyzed exclusively by ribosomal RNA
• 1999 Roderick MacKinnon, for his research into the molecular foundations of electrical signal generation in neurons and other types of cells
• 1998 Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, for their outstanding work on the maintenance of telomeres
• 1997 H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston, for their pioneering studies of cell lineage in the nematode worm
• 1996 Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck and A. James Hudspeth, for establishing the molecular basis of the senses of smell and hearing
• 1995 Thomas D. Pollard and James A. Spudich, for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of molecular motors
• 1994 Robert G. Roeder and Robert Tjian, for their outstanding work on eukaryotic transcription regulation
• 1993 James E. Rothman and Randy Schekman, for determining the components of the secretory pathway
• 1992 Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell, for establishing the details of the control of eukaryotic cell cycle
• 1991 David Botstein, Raymond L. White and Ronald W. Davis, for creating the methods by which variations in the human genome can be detected and analyzed
• 1990 Richard Henderson and Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin, for determining the first structure of an integral membrane protein
• 1989 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Edward B. Lewis, for pioneering studies of eukaryotic development
• 1988 Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech, for discovering RNA catalysis
• 1987 Shinya Inoué, for his innovations in light microscopy
• 1986 Harland G. Wood, for his outstanding work on enzyme function
• 1985 Seymour Benzer and Sydney Brenner, for founding modern eukaryotic genetics
• 1984 Donald D. Brown and Robert L. Letsinger, for their seminal work on development
• 1983 Eric R. Kandel and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., for pioneering contributions to sensory transduction
• 1982 Keith R. Porter and Alexander Rich
• 1981 Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Gordon H. Sato
• 1980 Elias J. Corey, Bengt I. Samuelsson and Frank H. Westheimer
• 1979 Howard Green and Beatrice Mintz
• 1978 César Milstein
• 1977 Barbara McClintock
• 1976 Peter D. Mitchell
• 1975 Bruce Ames, James A. Miller and Elizabeth C. Miller
• 1974 Arthur B. Pardee and H. Edwin Umbarger
• 1973 H. Ronald Kaback and Saul Roseman
• 1972 Boris Ephrussi
• 1971 David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel