| 2016 |
Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Reflections on Precision Medicine and Cancer Moonshots |
2015 |
Svante Paabo,Max-Planck-Institute |
The Genetic Legacy of Neanderthals |
| 2014 |
Patricia Churchland,UCSD/Salk Institute |
The Brains Behind Morality |
| 2013 |
Hidde Ploegh,MIT/Whitehead Institute |
The Logic of your Immune System |
| 2012 |
Robert Martienssen, CSHL |
Send in the Clones |
| 2011 |
Cynthia Kenyon, UCSF |
The Deadly Sweet Tooth |
| 2010 |
Robert Goldman, Northwestern University |
The Unexpected Link Between Premature Aging and Nuclear Organization |
| 2009 |
Kevin Padian, UC Berkeley |
Darwin, Dover, and Intelligent Design |
| 2008 |
Elaine Fuchs, The Rockefeller University |
Skin Stem Cells |
| 2007 |
Charles A. Czeisler, Harvard Medical School |
Work Hours, Sleep and Safety: Physician, Heal Thyself |
| 2006 |
Ron Pasterk, Hubrecht Laboratory |
The Emerging World of Small RNAs |
| 2005 |
Charles Sawyers, UCLA |
Making Progress through Molecular Attacks on Cancer |
| 2004 |
David Haig, Harvard University |
The Divided Self-Brains, Brawns, and the Superego |
| 2003 |
Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health |
The Human Genome Project |
| 2002 |
Richard Lifton, Yale University |
Salt & Blood Pressure: New Insights from Human Genetics Studies |
| 2001 |
Venki Ramakrishnan, Medical Research Council |
Protein Factories and Antibiotics |
| 2000 |
Jan H.J. Noeijmakers, Erasmus University |
Maintaining Nature's Perfection: Cancer and Aging and the Condition of Our Genes |
| 1999 |
Irving L. Weissman, Stanford University |
Repairing the Body: The Promise of Blood and Tissue Stem Cells |
| 1998 |
Ronald Evans, The Salk Institute |
The Molecular Biology of Fat: Weighing the Risks |
| 1997 |
Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin |
Embryos and Ancestors: The Formation and Evolution of Animal Body Patterns |
| 1996 |
V. S. Ramachandran, UCSD |
Neurology: What they Reveal about Human Nature |
| 1995 |
Gunther Blobel, The Rockefeller University |
How Proteins Find their Addresses in the Cell |
| 1994 |
Harold Varmus, National Institutes of Health |
Why is it Important to Understand the Genetic Basis of Cancer |
| 1993 |
Eric S. Lander, MIT Center for Genome Res |
Mapping Genes and Genomes |
| 1992 |
Michael Brown, Southwestern Medical School |
Cholesterol |
| 1991 |
J. Michael Bishop, UCSF Medical School |
Misguided Cells: The Genesis of Human Cancer |
| 1990 |
Francis Crick, The Salk Institute |
How Do We See Things |
| 1989 |
Gustva Nossal, Eliza Hall Institute/Australia |
Basic Elements of Immunology |
| 1988 |
Eric Kandel, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital |
The Long and Short of Long-term Memory |
| 1987 |
Ernst Mayr, Harvard University |
What is Evolution All About |
| 1986 |
Robert Gallo, National Institutes of Health |
AIDS |
| 1985 |
S. Dillon Ripley II, Smithsonian Institution |
Environmental Degradation in the Tropics |
| 1984 |
Ian Sussex, Yale University |
The New Plant Genetics and Its Implications for Biotechnology |
| 1983 |
Amory & Hunter Lovins, Rocky Mountain Inst. |
Study of Sources and Proper Use and Observation of Energy Solutions for Energy Problems |
| 1982 |
Robert D. Ballard, Woods Hole |
Explorations on the Ocean's Floors |
| 1981 |
Walter Sullivan, New York Times |
We Are Not Alone |
| 1980 |
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University |
The Meaning of the Darwin Revolution |
| 1979 |
Rene Dubos, The Rockefeller University |
Man's Needs to Create a Symbiotic Relationship With Earth To Survive |
| 1978 |
John Kopper, C.W. Post University |
Human Evolution and Geomagnetism |