Rosenstiel Award

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Since 1971 the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research is awarded by Brandeis University, which says that it was established "as an expression of the conviction that educational institutions have an important role to play in the encouragement and development of basic science as it applies to medicine".

Medals are presented annually at Brandeis University on the basis of recommendations of a panel of scientists selected by the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center. Awards are given to scientists for recent discoveries of "particular originality" and "importance to basic medical research". A $30,000 prize and a medallion accompanies each award.

The Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, named after Lewis Solon Rosenstiel, was established in 1968, carrying out research in basic medical science.

Recipients

Source: Brandeis University

2016 Susan Lindquist (posthum), in recognition of her pioneering work on the mechanisms of protein folding and the severe consequences of protein misfolding that are manifest in disease

2015 Yoshinori Ohsumi, in recognition of his pioneering discoveries of molecular pathways and biological functions of protein degradation by autophagy

2014 Frederick Alt, in recognition of his pioneering work in elucidating the mechanisms of genome rearrangements in immune and cancer cells

2013 Winfried Denk, David Tank and Watt W. Webb, in recognition of their invention of multiphoton fluorescence microscopy and its application to illuminating the function of brain microcircuits

2012 Stephen J. Elledge, for elucidating how eukaryotic cells sense and respond to DNA damage

2011 Nahum Sonenberg, for his transformative studies of the control of protein synthesis in mammalian cells

2010 C. David Allis and Michael Grunstein, for their discovery that histones and histone acetylation directly regulate transcription

2009 Jules Hoffman and Ruslan Medzhitov, for elucidating the mechanisms of innate immunity

2008 John Gurdon, Irving Weissman and Shinya Yamanaka, for their pioneering work in the field of stem cell research

2007 F.-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur L. Horwich, for their pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding

2006 Mary F. Lyon, Davor Solter and Azim Surani, for their pioneering work on epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian embryos

2005 Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, for their pioneering development of powerful new tools that allow the direct visualization of molecules in living cells

2004 Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their pioneering achievements in the discovery of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA

2003 Masakazu Konishi, Peter Marler and Fernando Nottebohm, for their pioneering achievements in the ethology and neurology of birdsong

2002 Ira Herskowitz, for his pioneering achievements in yeast genetics and cell biology

2001 Joan A. Steitz, for her work in establishing a sub-field of molecular biology concerning small nuclear ribonucleoproteins

2000 Peter B. Moore, Harry F. Noller, Jr. and Thomas A. Steitz, for their discovery that peptide bond formation on the ribosome is catalyzed exclusively by ribosomal RNA

1999 Roderick MacKinnon, for his research into the molecular foundations of electrical signal generation in neurons and other types of cells

1998 Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, for their outstanding work on the maintenance of telomeres

1997 H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston, for their pioneering studies of cell lineage in the nematode worm

1996 Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck and A. James Hudspeth, for establishing the molecular basis of the senses of smell and hearing

1995 Thomas D. Pollard and James A. Spudich, for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of molecular motors

1994 Robert G. Roeder and Robert Tjian, for their outstanding work on eukaryotic transcription regulation

1993 James E. Rothman and Randy Schekman, for determining the components of the secretory pathway

1992 Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell, for establishing the details of the control of eukaryotic cell cycle

1991 David Botstein, Raymond L. White and Ronald W. Davis, for creating the methods by which variations in the human genome can be detected and analyzed

1990 Richard Henderson and Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin, for determining the first structure of an integral membrane protein

1989 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Edward B. Lewis, for pioneering studies of eukaryotic development

1988 Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech, for discovering RNA catalysis

1987 Shinya Inoué, for his innovations in light microscopy

1986 Harland G. Wood, for his outstanding work on enzyme function

1985 Seymour Benzer and Sydney Brenner, for founding modern eukaryotic genetics

1984 Donald D. Brown and Robert L. Letsinger, for their seminal work on development

1983 Eric R. Kandel and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., for pioneering contributions to sensory transduction

1982 Keith R. Porter and Alexander Rich

1981 Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Gordon H. Sato

1980 Elias J. Corey, Bengt I. Samuelsson and Frank H. Westheimer

1979 Howard Green and Beatrice Mintz

1978 César Milstein

1977 Barbara McClintock

1976 Peter D. Mitchell

1975 Bruce Ames, James A. Miller and Elizabeth C. Miller

1974 Arthur B. Pardee and H. Edwin Umbarger

1973 H. Ronald Kaback and Saul Roseman

1972 Boris Ephrussi

1971 David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel

References

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