Joseph G. Gall
Encyclopedia
Joseph Grafton Gall is an American cell biologist and winner of the 2006 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award
. He also won the 2007 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
(shared with Elizabeth Blackburn
and Carol W. Greider
). He has been credited for encouraging women biologists, a group sometimes called "Gall's Gals", in an era when this was relatively uncommon.
Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award
The Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award is one of the four Lasker Awards given by the Lasker Foundation for medical research in the United States. The first award was given in 1994; it is not awarded every year. In 2008, the award was renamed the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in...
. He also won the 2007 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers that have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry....
(shared with Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth 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...
and Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider is an American molecular biologist. She is Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, when she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of...
). He has been credited for encouraging women biologists, a group sometimes called "Gall's Gals", in an era when this was relatively uncommon.
Print references
- Endow, S.A. and Gerbi, S.A. 2003. Joseph G. Gall. Journal of Cell Science 116:3849-3850