March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
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The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology is awarded once a year by the March of Dimes
. It carries a $250,000 award "to an investigator whose research brings us closer to the day when all babies will be born healthy." It also includes a medal in the shape of a Roosevelt (who founded the March of Dimes) dime.
March of Dimes
The March of Dimes Foundation is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.-Organization:...
. It carries a $250,000 award "to an investigator whose research brings us closer to the day when all babies will be born healthy." It also includes a medal in the shape of a Roosevelt (who founded the March of Dimes) dime.
Laureates
- 2011 Patricia Ann Jacobs and David C. Page
- 2010 Shinya YamanakaShinya Yamanakais a Japanese physician and adult stem cell researcher. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J...
- 2009 Kevin P. Campbell and Louis M. Kunkel
- 2008 Philip A. BeachyPhilip A. BeachyPhilip Arden Beachy is Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California and an Associate at Stanford's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine....
and Clifford J. Tabin - 2007 Anne McLarenAnne McLarenThe Hon. Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG was the daughter of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway and Christabel McNaughten. She became a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation...
and Janet RossantJanet RossantJanet Rossant FRS is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is currently the Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in Toronto, Canada.... - 2006 Alexander VarshavskyAlexander VarshavskyAlexander Varshavsky is a Russian-American biochemist and recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 2001 for his research on ubiquitination...
- 2005 Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver SmithiesOliver SmithiesOliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more...
- 2004 Mary F. LyonMary F. LyonMary Frances Lyon, FRS is an English geneticist, who is best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important cytogenetic phenomenon.-Childhood and education:...
- 2003 Pierre Chambon and Ronald M. EvansRonald M. EvansRonald M. Evans is an American professor and biologist who works at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He received his BS and PhD degrees from UCLA, followed by a postdoctoral training in Rockefeller University...
- 2002 Seymour BenzerSeymour BenzerSeymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at...
and Sydney BrennerSydney BrennerSydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H... - 2001 Corey S. Goodman and Thomas M. Jessell
- 2000 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...
- 1999 Martin J. Evans and Richard L. Gardner
- 1998 Davor Solter
- 1997 Walter J. Gehring and David S. Hogness
- 1996 Beatrice MintzBeatrice MintzBeatrice Mintz is an American female embryologist who has contributed to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation and cancer, particularly melanoma....
and Ralph L. BrinsterRalph L. BrinsterRalph Lawrence Brinster is an American geneticist and Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.- Birth and education :...