March of Dimes and Richard B. Johnston, Jr., Md Prize in Developmental Biology Recipient List
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MARCH OF DIMES AND RICHARD B. JOHNSTON, JR., MD PRIZE IN DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY RECIPIENT LIST 2016 2012 Victor R. Ambros, PhD Howard Green, MD Silverman Professor of Natural Science George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology and Co-Director, RNA Therapeutics Department of Cell Biology Institute, University of Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Medical School Elaine Fuchs, PhD Gary B. Ruvkun, PhD Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology & Development School and Hans-Hermann Schoene Rockefeller University, New York, New York Distinguished Investigator, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Massachusetts General Hospital Professor, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences Kyoto University, Japan For making the seminal discovery of the conservation of short noncoding microRNAs and elucidating the mechanism by which translation of target For discovering how to reprogram adult skin cells into pluripotent mRNAs is controlled by microRNAs, thus providing explanations for embryonic-like adults stem cells. developmental and physiological processes of great medical significance. 2011 2015 Patricia Ann Jacobs, OBE, DSc, FRS Rudolf Jaenisch, MD Co-Director of Research, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory and Professor of Biology Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Professor of Human Genetics, Southampton University Medical School For devising innovative technologies that elucidated long-standing David C. Page, MD dilemmas in developmental biology, for recognizing the transformative Director, Whitehead Institute significance on cellular function of epigenetic programming, and for Professor of Biology, applying the power of induced pluripotent stem cells to novel discoveries. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2014 Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD For pioneering work in human cytogenetics and the normal and abnormal Professor, Departments of Pediatrics; Molecular and Human Genetics; function and behavior of the X and Y chromosomes. Neurology; Neuroscience; Programs in Cell and Molecular Biology and Developmental Biology 2010 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD * L.K. Whittier Foundation Investigator in Stem Cell Biology For pioneering work evolving from discovery that mutations in the X- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease linked MECP2 cause Rett syndrome and for studies elucidating the Professor, University of California, San Francisco maintenance role of this epigenetic regulator in different neurons. Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application 2013 Eric Olson, PhD For research on how certain master genes and protein signals regulate formation and growth of organs such as the brain and limbs during Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research embryonic and fetal development. Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science Department of Molecular Biology 2009 University of Texas Kevin P. Campbell, PhD Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Carver Chair, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Director of the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research For discovering genes and regulatory pathways governing development Center and growth of the cardiovascular system, and establishing a framework Professor of Neurology and Internal Medicine for how they function. University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa Louis M. Kunkel, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Harvard Medical School Chief of the Division of Genetics The Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts For their pioneering research that has led to major new insights into the genetic and molecular causes of muscular dystrophy. 2008 2003 Clifford J. Tabin, PhD Pierre Chambon, MD George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder Professor Professor and Director Chair, Department of Genetics Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology, INSERM, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Strasbourg, France Philip A. Beachy, PhD Ronald M. Evans, PhD The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute For discovering nuclear hormone receptors and characterizing their Distinguished Professor and Co-Chairman structure and function. Department of Human Genetics University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 2002 Seymour Benzer, PhD For original research on how certain master genes and their protein Boswell Professor of Neurosciences Emeritus signals regulate the formation and growth of organs during embryonic Division of Biology and fetal development. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Sydney Brenner, DPhil, FRS * 2007 Distinguished Professor Dame Anne McLaren, DBE, DPhil, FRS, FRCOG The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California Principal Research Associate Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute For their tremendously influential bodies of work which have helped to University of Cambridge, England revolutionize and open up productive new fields of study in molecular Janet Rossant, PhD, FRS, FRS(C) biology and genetics. Chief of Research, The Hospital for Sick Children University Professor, Departments of Medical Genetics & Microbiology 2001 and Obstetrics & Gynecology Corey S. Goodman, PhD University of Toronto, Canada Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience Director, Wills Neuroscience Institute For their remarkable contributions to our understanding of the entire University of California, Berkeley cycle of mammalian reproduction and development, using the mouse as a Thomas M. Jessell, PhD, FRS model system. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Columbia University, New York, New York 2006 Alexander Varshavsky, PhD For their extraordinary body of work that has helped revolutionize the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology molecular understanding of central nervous system development and Division of Biology function. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 2000 For explaining how ubiquitin, a tiny protein found in all living things, H. Robert Horvitz, PhD * plays a major role in our lives by helping to regulate many crucial Professor of Biology processes in human cells. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 2005 For pioneering work in revealing genetic control over the active process of Mario Capecchi, PhD * programmed cell death or apoptosis. Boswell Professor of Neurosciences Emeritus Division of Biology 1999 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Sir Richard L. Gardner, PhD, FRS Oliver Smithies, DPhil, FRS * Henry Dale Research Professor of the Royal Society Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Oxford University, England University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sir Martin J. Evans, PhD, DSc, FRS * Professor of Mammalian Genetics For the development of gene targeting in mice as a means of determining University of Cambridge, England how genes function. For pioneering techniques to identify and grow the embryonic stem cells 2004 of mice in vitro and to introduce specific mutations into these cells. Mary F. Lyon, PhD, FRS Former Head, Genetic Section, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit 1998 Medical Research Council Davor Solter, MD, PhD Harwell, United Kingdom Director and Member, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology Department of Developmental Biology, Freiburg, Germany, and For discovery of the process of X-chromosome inactivation. Adjunct Senior Staff Scientist The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine For pioneering the concept of gene imprinting. 1997 1996 Walter J. Gehring, PhD Beatrice Mintz, PhD Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Biozentrum Senior Member, Institute for Cancer Research University of Basel, Switzerland Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania David S. Hogness, PhD Ralph L. Brinster, VMD, PhD Munzer Professor of Developmental Biology and Biochemistry Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia For discovery and analysis of homeobox genes. For development of the transgenic mouse. Nobel Prize recipient or co-recipient .