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Awards & Honors
Elaine Fuchs awarded 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award for Biomedical Science
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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.
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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.
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Paul Muller
Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Muller receives the honor for his examination of the interactions between neurons and macrophages in the intestinal tract.
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Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise
Kivanç Birsoy
Birsoy is honored for his research examining how metabolic pathways regulate biological processes and contribute to disease.
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Pradel Research Award
Leslie B. Vosshall
The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Vosshall will receive the honor for her research into how disease-carrying mosquitoes select human…
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MacArthur Fellow
Vanessa Ruta
Ruta, who investigates how the brain is modified by experience, has received a MacArthur Fellowship, an award intended to encourage people of outstand…
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Wolf Prize in Medicine
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Friedman has been named the recipient of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Medicine for his discovery of leptin, a hormone that modulates food intake and energy …
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Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
A. James Hudspeth
Hudspeth receives this honor for his pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing.
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Laura Duvall
Blavatnik Regional Award
Laura Duvall
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Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
Carla Nasca
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Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
Liling Wan
Samantha Larsen
Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
Samantha Larsen
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Priya Rajasethupathy
Laura Duvall
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

Awards by Year

2020 Awards
2019 Awards
All Awards

Awards given by Rockefeller University

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Pearl Meister Greengard Award

2019 AWARDEE: XIAOWEI ZHUANG

Xiaowei Zhuang pioneered the development of super-resolution and genome-scale imaging techniques that transcend the limits of traditional light microscopy.

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Lewis Thomas Prize

2019 AWARDEE: SIDDHARTHA MUKHERKEE

The author of The Emperor of all Maladies, a best-selling book about cancer, was presented with Rockefeller’s science writing award at a public ceremony on campus.