The E. Mead Johnson Award, given by the

Society for Pediatric Research A society () is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. ...

, was established in 1939 to honor clinical and laboratory research achievements in

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. The awards are funded by Mead Johnson Nutritionals, a subsidiary of

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and are named after

Edward Mead Johnson Edward Mead Johnson (April 23, 1852 – March 20, 1934) was an American businessman and one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson. In 1886, Edward Mead Johnson abandoned a career in law and joined his two brothers Robert Wood Johnson I, and ...

, a co-founder of the originating company

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. Two researchers sometimes share a prize.

Award recipients

Source: * 1939 Frederic A. Gibbs,

Dorothy Hansine Andersen Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 – March 3, 1963) was the American physician and researcher who first identified and named cystic fibrosis. During her almost thirty year tenure at Babies Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ...

* 1940 Robert E. Gross, Lee E. Farr * 1941 René J. Dubos,

Albert Sabin Albert Bruce Sabin ( ; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly Poliomyelitis eradication, eradica ...

* 1942

David Bodian David Bodian (15 May 1910 – 18 September 1992) was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research. In the early 1940s he helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of p ...

and Howard A. Howe, Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison * 1943 Hattie E. Alexander, Philip Levine * 1944

Fuller Albright Fuller Albright (January 12, 1900 – December 8, 1969) was an American endocrinologist who made numerous contributions to his field, especially to the area of calcium metabolism. Albright made great strides and contributions to the understanding ...

, Josef Warkany * 1945 ''no awards given'' * 1946 Horace L. Hodes, Paul A. Harper * 1947

Helen B. Taussig Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the l ...

, Louis K. Diamond * 1948 Wolf W. Zuelzer, Benjamin M. Spock * 1949 Nathan B. Talbot, Henry L. Barnett * 1950 Charles D. May and Harry Shwachman, Gertrude Henle and Werner Henle * 1951 William M. Wallace, Victor A. Najjar * 1952 Seymour S. Cohen, Orvar Swenson and Edward B.D. Neuhauser * 1953 Frederick C. Robbins and

Thomas H. Weller Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis v ...

, Margaret H. Smith * 1954 Robert E. Cooke, Vincent C. Kelley * 1955 Robert A. Good * 1956 David Gitlin,

Arnall Patz Arnall Patz (June 14, 1920 – March 11, 2010) was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 ...

* 1957 Alfred M. Bongiovanni and Walter R. Eberlein, Albert Dorfman * 1958 William A. Silverman, Norman Kretchmer * 1959 C. Henry Kempe, Barton Childs * 1960 Robert A. Aldrich, Irving Schulman * 1961 Lytt Irvine Gardner, Donald E. Pickering * 1962

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, Robert L. Vernier * 1963

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( ;Holley, Joe (December 16, 2008) "D. Carleton Gajdusek; Controversial Scientist", ''The Washington Post'', p. B5. September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co ...

, Richard T. Smith * 1964

Robert M. Chanock Robert Merritt Chanock (July 8, 1924 – July 30, 2010) was an American pediatrics, pediatrician and virology, virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent ...

, Abraham M. Rudolph * 1965 David Y.-Y Hsia, L. Stanley James * 1966 William H. Tooley, Robert W. Winters * 1967 Henry Neil Kirkman, Henry M. Meyer and Paul D. Parkman * 1968 Mary Ellen Avery, Charles R. Scriver * 1969 Frederick C. Battaglia, Gerard B. Odell * 1970 Myron Winick, Joseph A. Bellanti * 1971 Paul G. Quie, Fred S. Rosen * 1972 Chester M. Edelmann, Frank A. Oski * 1973 Henry L. Nadler, James G. White * 1974 Andre J. Nahmias, E. Richard Stiehm * 1975 John B. Robbins and David H. Smith, Rawle M. McIntosh * 1976 Haig H. Kazazian, David Lawrence Rimoin * 1977 Arthur J. Ammann, Michael E. Miller * 1978 Samuel A. Latt, Pearay L. Ogra * 1979 Philip L. Ballard, Harvey R. Colten * 1980 R. Michael Blaese, S. Michael Mauer * 1981 Robert J. Desnick, Erwin W. Gelfand * 1982 Larry J. Shapiro, Jerry A. Winkelstein * 1983 Laurence A. Boxer, Samuel E. Lux * 1984 Jan L. Breslow, John A. Phillips * 1985 Russell W. Chesney, Augustine Joseph D'Ercole * 1986 Raif Salim Geha, Alan H. Jobe * 1987 Donald C. Anderson, Stuart H. Orkin * 1988 Jeffrey A. Whitsett, Barry Wolf * 1989 Steven M. Reppert, Robert H. Yolken * 1990 Gregory A. Grabowski, Arnold W. Strauss * 1991 Louis M. Kunkel, Ronald G. Worton * 1992 Ann Margaret Arvin, Francis S. Collins and

Lap-Chee Tsui Lap-Chee Tsui (; born 21 December 1950) is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong. Personal life He grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong and attended . He studied Biolog ...

* 1993 Edward R.B. McCabe, Alan L. Schwartz * 1994 David A. Williams, David H. Perlmutter * 1995 Margaret K. Hostetter, Alan M. Krensky * 1996 Perrin C. White, Huda Y. Zoghbi * 1997 Donald Y.M. Leung, Elaine Tuomanen * 1998 Jonathan D. Gitlin,

James R. Lupski James R. Lupski (born February 22, 1957) is the Cullen Endowed Chair in Molecular Genetics and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine The Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a private medical school in Houst ...

, Jeffrey C. Murray * 1999 Steven H. Abman and Chaim M. Roifman * 2000 Mark A. Kay and

Gregg L. Semenza Gregg Leonard Semenza (born July 12, 1956) is an American pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a 2 ...

* 2001 Alan D. D'Andrea, Steve A.N. Goldstein * 2002 Nancy C. Andrews, Markus Grompe * 2003 Gregory S. Barsh, Val C. Sheffield * 2004 Bruce D. Gelb, Friedhelm Hildebrandt * 2005 Elizabeth C. Engle, Terence R. Flotte * 2006 James E. Crowe, David Pellman * 2007 Marc E. Rothenberg, Deepak Srivastava * 2008 Todd R. Golub, Victor Nizet * 2009 George Q. Daley,

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* 2010 Jean-Laurent Casanova, Fernando Pedro Polack * 2011

Joel Hirschhorn Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1937 – September 18, 2005) was an American songwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. H ...

, Eric Vilain * 2012 Scott A. Armstrong, Nicholas Katsanis * 2013 William T. Pu, Bradley L. Schlaggar * 2014

Atul Butte Atul Janardhan Butte (August 26, 1969 – June 13, 2025) was an American biomedical informatician, pediatrician, and biotechnology entrepreneur. He was the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the University of Californi ...

, John Vance Williams * 2015 Ophir Klein, Loren D. Walensky * 2016 Kimberly Stegmaier, Sing Sing Way * 2017 Jordan S. Orange * 2018 Helen Su * 2019 Joshua D. Milner * 2021

Sallie Permar Sallie Robey Permar is the pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center and the chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on infections affecting newborns. Education Pe ...

* 2022 Vijay G. Sankaran * 2023 Audrey Odom John

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Award recipients

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