The Edwin Grant Conklin Medal was inaugurated in 1995 by the

Society for Developmental Biology The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), originally the Society for the Study of Development and Growth, is a professional society for scientists and professionals around the world whose research is focused on the study of the developmental b ...

in honor of the biologist Edwin Conklin. It is awarded annually to recognise a member of the society who has carried out distinguished and sustained research in developmental biology. The recipient delivers a feature lecture at the annual society meeting and is presented with a commemorative plaque.

List of recipients

The following have won the award: * 1995 – John Phillip Trinkaus (Yale University) * 1996 –

John W. Saunders Jr. John W. Saunders Jr. (November 12, 1919 – December 26, 2015) was an American scientist whose research in the field of developmental biology and zoology played an integral part in helping to understand how various vertebrate limbs develop. Saunder ...

(State University of New York at Albany) * 1997 – Elizabeth D. Hay (Harvard Medical School) * 1998 –

Thomas C. Kaufman Thomas Charles Kaufman is an American geneticist. He is known for his work on the zeste-white region of the ''Drosophila'' X chromosome. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of biology at Indiana University, where he conducts his current ...

(Indiana University) * 1999 –

Clement Markert Clement Lawrence Markert (April 11, 1917 – October 1, 1999) was an American biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences ...

(Yale University) * 2000 –

Charles B. Kimmel Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

(University of Oregon) * 2001 – John B. Gurdon (University of Cambridge) * 2002 – Gail R. Martin (University of California, San Francisco) * 2003 – Allan C. Spradling (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland) * 2004 –

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(Stanford University) * 2005 –

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (born 20 August 1930) is a developmental biologist known for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems. Le Douarin invented an embryo manipulation ...

(Honoraire at the Collège de France and Secrétaire Perpétuelle of the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France) * 2006 –

Trudi Schupbach Trudi is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Trudi Ames (born 1946), American actress * Trudi Birger (1927–2002) German Holocaust survivor and writer * Trudi Canavan (born 1969), Australian writer *Trudi Le Caine (1911–1999), ...

(Princeton University) * 2007 –

Janet Rossant Janet Rossant, (born 13 July 1950) is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is a world renowned leader in developmental biology. Her current research int ...

(Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) * 2008 – Elizabeth J. Robertson (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) * 2009 –

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(Stanford University) * 2010 – Noriyuki Satoh (Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Japan) * 2011 – Ruth Lehmann (Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) * 2012 –

Clifford Tabin Clifford James Tabin (born 1954) is chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Education Tabin was educated at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a BS in physics in 1976. He went on to graduate school at Mas ...

(Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts) * 2013 –

Marianne Bronner Marianne Bronner is a developmental biologist who currently serves as Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology and an Executive Officer for Neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology. Her most notable work includes her research on the ne ...

(California Institute of Technology) * 2014 – Richard Harland (University of California, Berkeley) * 2015 –

Michael S. Levine Michael Levine is an American developmental and cell biologist at Princeton University, where he is the Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and a Professor of Molecular Biology. Levine previously held appointments a ...

(University of California, Berkeley / Lewis Sigler Institute, Princeton) * 2016 - Kathryn V. Anderson (Sloan Kettering Institute) * 2017 - Philippe M. Soriano (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) * 2018 - Robb Krumlauf (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) * 2019 - Eric N. Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) * 2020 - Claude Desplan (New York University)

References

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List of recipients

See also

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