The Passano Foundation, established in 1945, provides an annual award to a research scientist whose work – done in the United States – is thought to have immediate practical benefits. Many Passano laureates have subsequently won the
Nobel Prize
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Selection of award winners
Passano Laureates
* 2024
K. Christopher Garcia
* 2023
Se-Jin Lee
* 2022
Duojia Pan
* 2021
Alfred GoldbergLaureate 2021
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* 2020 David Eisenberg
David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist and Biophysics, biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology and computational molecular biology. He has been a professor at the University of California, ...
* 2019 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth
* 2018 Carl June, Michel Sadelain
* 2017 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
* 2016 , Helen Hobbs
* 2015 James P. Allison (2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, acco ...
)
* 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon
* 2013 Rudolf Jaenisch
* 2012 Eric N. Olson
* 2011 Elaine Fuchs
* 2010 David Julius (2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, acco ...
)
* 2009 Irving Weissman
* 2008 Thomas Südhof (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, acco ...
)
* 2007 Joan Massagué Solé
* 2006 Napoleone Ferrara
* 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
* 2003 Andrew Z. Fire (2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 2002 Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 – 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. ('' magna cum ...
* 2001 Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the ...
* 2000 Giuseppe Attardi, Douglas C. Wallace
* 1999 Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the ...
(2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Carol W. Greider (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1998 H. Robert Horvitz (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1997 James E. Darnell, Jr.
* 1996 Leland H. Hartwell (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1995 Robert G. Roeder, Robert Tjian
* 1994 Bert Vogelstein
* 1993 Jack L. Strominger, Don Craig Wiley
* 1992 Charles Yanofsky
* 1991 William S. Sly, Stuart Kornfeld
* 1990 Alfred Goodman Gilman (1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1989 Victor Almon McKusick
* 1988 Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Edmond Henri Fischer (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1987 Irwin Fridovich
* 1986 Albert L. Lehninger, Eugene P. Kennedy
* 1985 Howard Green
* 1984 Peter Nowell
* 1983 John Michael Bishop (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Harold Elliot Varmus (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
* 1981 Hugh McDevitt
* 1980 Seymour S. Kety
* 1979 Donald F. Steiner
* 1978 Michael Stuart Brown (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Joseph L. Goldstein (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1977 Curt P. Richter
* 1976 Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1975 Henry G. Kunkel
* 1974 Seymour S. Cohen, Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925 April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepat ...
(1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1973 Roger Sperry (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1972 Kimishige Ishizaka, Teruko Ishizaka
* 1971 Stephen W. Kuffler
* 1970 Paul Zamecnik
* 1969 George Herbert Hitchings (1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1968
* 1967 Irvine Page
* 1966 John T. Edsall
* 1965 Charles Brenton Huggins (1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1964 Keith R. Porter, George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1963 Horace Winchell Magoun
* 1962 Albert Hewett Coons
* 1961 Owen Harding Wangensteen
* 1960 René Dubos
* 1959 Stanhope Bayne-Jones
* 1958 George W. Corner
* 1957
* 1956 George Nicolas Papanicolaou
* 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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)
* 1954 Homer Smith
* 1953 John Franklin Enders (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1952 Herbert M. Evans
* 1951 Philip Levine, Alexander Solomon Wiener
* 1950 Edward Calvin Kendall (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Philip Showalter Hench (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1949 Oswald Avery
Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecu ...
* 1948 Alfred Blalock, Helen Brooke Taussig
* 1947 Selman Abraham Waksman (1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1946 Ernest W. Goodpasture
* 1945 Edwin J. Cohn
Young Scientist Award
* 1992 Tom Curran
* 1991 Roger Tsien (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
* 1990 Matthew P. Scott
* 1989 Louis M. Kunkel
* 1988 Peter Walter
* 1987 Jeremy Nathans
* 1986 James Rothman (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1985 Mark M. Davis
* 1984 Thomas R. Cech (1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
* 1983 Gerald M. Rubin, Allan C. Spradling
* 1982 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
* 1981 William A. Catterall, Joel M. Moss
* 1979 Richard Axel
Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won h ...
(2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
* 1978 Robert Lefkowitz (2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
* 1977
* 1976
* 1975 Joan A. Steitz
References
External links
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Biomedical research foundations
Science and technology awards
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