Gruber Prize in Genetics

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Presented by Gruber Foundation First awarded 2001		Reward(s) US$500,000 Official website gruber.yale.edu
Awarded for Groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research Location Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut

The Gruber Prize in Genetics, established in 2001, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Genetics Prize honors leading scientists for distinguished contributions in any realm of genetics research. The Foundation’s other international prizes are in Cosmology, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women’s Rights.

Recipients

2016 Michael Grunstein, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and C. David Allis, Rockefeller Foundation

2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany and Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley

2014 Victor Ambros, PhD, University of Massachusetts; David Baulcombe, PhD, University of Cambridge; and Gary Ruvkun, PhD, Harvard University

2013 Svante Pääbo, PhD

2012 Douglas C. Wallace, PhD

2011 Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Stanford University

2010 Gerald Fink, PhD, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor at MIT

2009 Janet Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago

2008 Allan C. Spradling, PhD, of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics

2007 Maynard Olson of the University of Washington, a bioinformatics specialist

2006 Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist specializing in telomeres

2005 Robert Hugh Waterston

2004 Mary Claire King

2003 David Botstein

2002 H. Robert Horvitz

2001 Rudolf Jaenisch

References

Gruber Prize in Genetics Wikipedia

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