Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in
Biotechnology and Medicine


Past Winners

2012

"for identifying the cellular effects of bisphenol in plastics"

Patricia Hunt
Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences
Washington State University
Pullman, WA USA
Ana M. Soto
Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA USA
Carlos Sonnenschein
Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA USA


2011

"for his development of strategies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and for immunotherapy of cancer"

James P. Allison
Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Chairman, Immunology Program
David H. Koch Chair in Immunologic Studies
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Attending Immunologist, Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY USA


2010

"for her discovery and development of aromatase inhibitors as a treatment for breast cancer"

Angela Hartley Brodie
Professor of Pharmacology
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA


2009

"for their significant contributions in the field of assisted human reproduction"

Alan H. Handyside
Visiting Professor
Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
University of Leeds
Consultant in Pre-implantation Genetics
The London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre
Co-director
Bridge Genoma
London, England
Ann A. Kiessling
Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Director
Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Boston, MA USA
Gianpiero D. Palermo
Associate Professor of Reproductive Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director, Assisted Fertilization and Andrology
The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility
New York, NY USA


2008

"for his discovery of regulated protein turnover in bacteria and mitochondria and development of proteasome inhibitors as a treatment for cancer"

Alfred Goldberg
Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA


2007

"for pioneering the technology of gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem (ES) cells"

Mario R. Capecchi
(2007 Nobel Prize)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics
The University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT USA


2006

"for their role in the development of contrast agents used in cardio-diagnostic procedures"

Alan Davison
Professor emeritus of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Alun Gareth Jones
Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA


2005

"for their role in the development and use of molecular beacons as a diagnostic tool in vitro, and in the detection of RNA in living cells"

Fred R. Kramer
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
New Jersey Medical School
Member, Public Health Research Institute
Newark, NJ USA
Sanjay Tyagi
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Member, Public Health Research Institute
Newark, NJ USA



2004

"for his many contributions to the biotechnology industry"

George M. Whitesides
Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA


2003

"for their development of yeast two-hybrid and yeast mating interaction traps"

Roger Brent
President and Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute
Berkeley, CA USA
Stanley Fields
Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA


2002

"for their pioneering achievements in developing antibodies as pharmaceutical proteins for the treatment of human diseases"

William H. Rastetter
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation
San Diego, CA USA
Dennis J. Slamon
Executive Vice Chair for Research and
Professor of Medicine
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA USA
Gregory P. Winter
Head of Division of Protein and
Nucleic Acid Chemistry
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, England


2001

"for his pioneering achievements in miniaturization of fundamental biochemical experiments"

J. Michael Ramsey
Group Leader, Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN USA


2000

"for his leadership in genome sequencing"

J. Craig Venter
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Celera Genomics
Rockville, MD USA


1999

"for their entrepreneurial roles in the creation of some of the most successful biotechnology firms"

David V. Goeddel
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Tularik, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA USA
Thomas P. Maniatis
Thomas H. Lee Professor of
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
William J. Rutter
Chairman emeritus
Chiron Corporation
Emeryville, CA USA


1998

"for their development of microarray methods for the analysis of gene expression on a genome-wide scale"

Patrick O. Brown
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
Stephen P. A. Fodor
Research Scientist
Affymetrix, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA USA



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