Awards & Honors
Elaine Fuchs awarded 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award for Biomedical Science
Our scientists are remarkably productive and empowered to perform at their best. That’s why we have an unparalleled concentration of researchers and trainees recognized with top awards—including the world’s most prestigious bioscience prizes.
Recent Awards
2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Friedman's discovery of the hormone leptin has transformed our understanding of obesity.
2019 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Jue Chen
Chen, a structural biologist, is honored for her innovative research on a family of transporter proteins that act as the cell’s pumping machinery, playing important roles in many cellular processes with broad implications for health and disease.
2019 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Luciano Marraffini
Marraffini is recognized for his research on CRISPR-Cas9, whose adaptation as a gene-editing tool has revolutionized biomedical science. He has pioneered the exploration of diverse CRISPR-Cas systems and their role in bacterial immunity and evolution.
Blavatnik Regional Award
Laura Duvall
Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
Carla Nasca
Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
Liling Wan
Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
Samantha Larsen
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Priya Rajasethupathy
Tri-Institutional Breakout Award
Laura Duvall
Pershing Square Sohn Prize–Mathers Foundation Fellow
Daniel Mucida
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Robert B. Darnell
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Elaine Fuchs
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
Brian T. Chait
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
Erich D. Jarvis
Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Li Zhao
The Rockefeller University Distinguished Teaching Award
Kivanç Birsoy
The Rockefeller University Distinguished Teaching Award
Paul Cohen
Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research
Gabriel D. Victora
