Considered the most coveted American prize in medical science, the Lasker Award honors Rice for his role in developing a system to study the replication of the virus that causes hepatitis C, an advance that has led to safe and powerful new drugs that cure the disease.
Given by the Robert Koch Foundation of Germany, the annual award is one of Germany’s most prestigious prizes, honoring extraordinary accomplishments in infectious disease research. The prize recognizes Nussenzweig for his outstanding achievements in immunology.
Heintz, who studies the inner workings of the mammalian brain, and Leibler, who explores questions related to how simple genetic and biochemical networks function, are among the new members to be inducted into the academy in 2016.
Granted by Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, the award honors researchers whose work has contributed to the institute’s scientific excellence. Casanova has been recognized for his work on the genetic basis of infectious diseases.
Karolinska Institute’s Jubilee Gold Medal
Torsten Wiesel, M.D.
The Rockefeller University Distinguished Teaching Award
Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D.
Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D.
Gruber Genetics Prize, Gruber Foundation at Yale
C. David Allis, Ph.D.
Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience
Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.
Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award
Kadir Has Early Career Scientist Award, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Kimmel Foundation Cancer Scholar, Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research
Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award, American Society for Clinical Investigation
Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program
Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D
Gill Award, University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute
Barry Coller, M.D
W. Alden Spencer Award
Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine, American Society for Clinical Investigation
Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
American Philosophical Society Membership
A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award
Sebastian Klinge, Ph.D.
HHMI Faculty Scholar
Daniel Kronauer, M.D., Ph.D.
Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award
Shixin Liu, Ph.D.
Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
John Maciejowski, Ph.D.
HHMI Faculty Scholar
Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award
Monica Mugnier, Ph.D.
Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School-Israel
Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D.
David B. Frohnmayer Early Investigator Award, Fanconi Anemia Research Fund
HHMI Faculty Scholar
Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D.
International Cell Death Society Award, International Cell Death Society
Hermann Steller, Ph.D.
HHMI Faculty Scholar
Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D.