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Awards & Honors
Rockefeller virologist Charles M. Rice honored with Nobel Prize for research that contributed to a cure for hepatitis C
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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 Canada Gairdner International Award for Biomedical Science
Elaine Fuchs
Fuchs, a world leader in the study of skin biology, is being recognized for revealing the molecular mechanisms by which skin stem cells make and repair tissues.
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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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Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Paul Muller
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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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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Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Lillian Cohn
Max Planck-Humboldt Medal
Luciano Marraffini
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Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
Amelia Escolano
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Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
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Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Jeremy M. Rock
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 Innovation
Samantha Larsen
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Priya Rajasethupathy
Science & SciLifeLab Grand Prize For Young Scientists
Junyue Cao
Vallee Scholar
Li Zhao
Pershing Square Sohn Prize
Shixin Liu
Tri-Institutional Breakout Award
Alexander Meeske
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
Brian T. Chait
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
Erich D. Jarvis

Awards by Year

2020 Awards
2019 Awards
All Awards

Awards given by The Rockefeller University

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Pearl Meister Greengard Award

The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is an international award recognizing outstanding women in biomedical research.

The 2020 recipient, Joanne Chory, pioneered the application of molecular genetics to plant biology and transformed our understanding of photosynthesis.

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Lewis Thomas Prize

The Lewis Thomas Prize is an international award for writing about science that honors the rare individuals who bridge the worlds of science and the humanities.

The 2021 awardee, Richard O. Prum, is an evolutionary ornithologist who is recognized for challenging conventional ideas about natural selection in The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us.