Rosenstiel Award Winners
for their remarkable neurobiological studies of how the brains of humans and other primates recognize faces
Winrich Freiwald
Denise A. and Eugene W. Chinery Professor
Head, Laboratory of Nerual Systems
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
Nancy Kanwisher
Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator, McGovern Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Margaret Livingstone
Takeda Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
Doris Tsao
Professor, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Nan Fung Life Sciences Faculty Scholar
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
The University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA USA
for his pioneering work in the development of cryo-electron tomography and his insights into the structures and functions of the protein quality control machinery
Wolfgang Baumeister
Director and Scientific Member emeritus
Department of Molecular Structural Biology
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Martinsried, Germany
for their pioneering work that shed light on the role of local protein synthesis in neuronal development and function
Christine Holt
Professor emerita of Developmental Neuroscience
Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Erin Schuman
Professor of Neurobiology
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Frankfurt, Germany
for his key role in revealing the dynamics of gene expression using high-resolution imaging
Robert Singer
Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Anatomy & Structural Biology
Professor, Departments of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Co-Chair, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Co-Director, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center
Co-Director, Integrated Imaging Program
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY USA
for their pioneering work in the modification of nucleic acids to develop RNA therapeutics and vaccines
Katalin Karikó
(2023 Nobel Prize)
Senior Vice President, RNA Protein Replacement Therapies
BioNTech SE
Mainz, Germany
Drew Weissman
(2023 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Penn Center for AIDS Research, Immunology Core
Director of Vaccine Research, Infectious Diseases Division
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA USA
for their remarkable contributions to our understanding of the sensations of temperature, pain and touch
David Julius
(2021 Nobel Prize)
Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine
Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology
School of Medicine
The University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA
Ardem Patapoutian
(2021 Nobel Prize)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA USA
for his fundamental and far-reaching studies of protein structure using X-ray crystallography
Steven C. Harrison
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor of Basic Medical Sciences
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Molecular Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA USA
for her elucidation of the protection of telomeres and the maintenance of genome stability
Titia de Lange
Leon Hess Professor
American Cancer Society Research Professor
Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics
Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
in recognition of her pioneering work on the mechanisms of protein folding and the severe consequences of protein misfolding that are manifest in disease
Susan Lindquist (1949-2016)
Professor
of Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Member, Whitehead Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
in recognition of his pioneering discoveries of molecular pathways and biological functions of protein degradation by autophagy
Yoshinori Ohsumi
(2016 Nobel Prize)
Professor
Frontier Research Center
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo, Japan
in recognition of his pioneering work in elucidating the mechanisms of genome rearrangements in immune and cancer cells
Frederick Alt
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital
Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
in recognition of their invention of multiphoton fluorescence microscopy and its application to illuminating the function of brain microcircuits
Winfried Denk
Director
Department of Biomedical Optics
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Professor of Physics
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
David Tank
Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology
Co-Director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ USA
Watt W. Webb
Professor emeritus of Applied Physics
S.B. Eckert Professor emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY USA
for elucidating how eukaryotic cells sense and respond to DNA damage
Stephen J. Elledge
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Senior Geneticist, Brigham and Womens Hospital
Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
for his transformative studies of the control of protein synthesis in mammalian cells
Nahum Sonenberg
James McGill Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
for their discovery that histones and histone acetylation directly regulate transcription
C. David Allis
Tri-Institutional Professor
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor
Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
Michael Grunstein
Distinguished Professor, Biological Chemistry
Department of Biological Chemistry
The University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA USA
for elucidating the mechanisms of innate immunity
Jules Hoffman
(2011 Nobel Prize)
Professor and Distinguished Class Research Director
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, CNRS
University Louis Pasteur
Strasbourg, France
Ruslan Medzhitov
David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT USA
for their pioneering work in the field of stem cell research
John Gurdon
(2012 Nobel Prize)
Professor, Department of Zoology
Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Irving Weissman
Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology
Director, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
Shinya Yamanaka
(2012 Nobel Prize)
Professor, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Anatomy
The University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA
for their pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding
F.-Ulrich Hartl
Director
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Martinsried, Germany
Arthur L. Horwich
Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT USA
for their pioneering work on epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian embryos
Mary Lyon
Mammalian Genetics Unit
MRC Harwell
Oxfordshire, England
Davor Solter
Department Head and Director
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology
Freiburg, Germany
Azim Surani
Marshall-Walton Professor
Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
for their pioneering development of powerful new tools that allow the direct visualization of molecules in living cells
Martin Chalfie
(2008 Nobel Prize)
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
New York, NY USA
Roger Y. Tsien
(2008 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry & Biochemistry
The University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA USA
for their pioneering achievements in the discovery of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
Andrew Z. Fire
(2006 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Pathology and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
Craig C. Mello
(2006 Nobel Prize)
Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA USA
Victor Ambros
(2024 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Genetics
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH USA
Gary Ruvkun
(2024 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Genetics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA USA
for their pioneering achievements in the ethology and neurology of birdsong
Masakzu Konishi
Bing Professor of Behavioral Biology
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA USA
Peter R. Marler
Professor emeritus
Animal Communication Laboratory
The University of California, Davis
Davis, CA USA
Fernando Nottebohm
Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor
Head, Laboratory of Animal Behavior
Director, Field Research Center
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
for his pioneering achievements in yeast genetics and cell biology
Ira Herskowitz
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and
Codirector, Program in Human Genetics
The University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA
for her work in establishing a sub-field of molecular biology concerning small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
Joan A. Steitz
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
for their discovery that peptide bond formation on the ribosome is catalyzed exclusively by ribosomal RNA
Peter B. Moore
Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
Harry F. Noller, Jr.
Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology
The University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA USA
Thomas A. Steitz
(2009 Nobel Prize)
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Chemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
for his research into the molecular foundations of electrical signal generation in neurons and other types of cells
Roderick MacKinnon
(2003 Nobel Prize)
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
for their outstanding work on the maintenance of telomeres
Elizabeth Blackburn
(2009 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
The University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA
Carol Greider
(2009 Nobel Prize)
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
for their pioneering studies of cell lineage in the nematode worm
H. Robert Horvitz
(2002 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
John E. Sulston
(2002 Nobel Prize)
Director, The Sanger Centre
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, England
for establishing the molecular basis of the senses of smell and hearing
Richard Axel
(2004 Nobel Prize)
Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Professor of Pathology
Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University School of Medicine
New York, NY USA
Linda B. Buck
(2004 Nobel Prize)
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
A. James Hudspeth
Professor and Head, Laboratory of
Sensory Science
Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of molecular motors
Thomas D. Pollard
Halstead Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
James A. Spudich
Professor of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
for their outstanding work on eukaryotic transcription regulation
Robert Roeder
Professor and Head, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
Robert Tjian
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA USA
for determining the components of the secretory pathway
James E. Rothman
(2013 Nobel Prize)
Chair, Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY USA
Randy Schekman
(2013 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA USA
for establishing the details of the control of eukaryotic cell cycle
Paul Nurse, F.R.S.
(2001 Nobel Prize)
Napier Royal Society Professor of Biochemistry
University of Oxford
Oxford, England
Leland H. Hartwell
(2001 Nobel Prize)
Professor, Department of Genetics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
for creating the methods by which variations in the human genome can be detected and analyzed
David Botstein
Chairman, Department of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
Raymond L. White
Professor of Human Genetics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT USA
Ronald W. Davis
Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford CA, USA
for determining the first structure of an integral membrane protein
Richard Henderson, F.R.S.
(2017 Nobel Prize)
Research Staff, Structural Studies Division
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, England
Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin, F.R.S.
Research Staff, Division of Neurobiology
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, England
for pioneering studies of eukaryotic development
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
(1995 Nobel Prize)
Director
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Tübingen, Germany
Edward B. Lewis
(1995 Nobel Prize)
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor emeritus of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA USA
for discovering RNA catalysis
Sidney Altman
(1989 Nobel Prize)
Dean of Yale College
Professor of Biology
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
Thomas R. Cech
(1989 Nobel Prize)
American Cancer Society Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO USA
for his innovations in light microscopy
Shinya Inoué
Distinguished Scientist
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA USA
for his outstanding work on enzyme function
Harland G. Wood
University Professor emeritus in Biochemistry
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH USA
for founding modern eukaryotic genetics
Seymour Benzer
James Griffin Boswell Professor of Neuroscience
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA USA
Sydney Brenner
(2002 Nobel Prize)
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Medical Council Research Centre
University Medical School
Cambridge, England
for their seminal work on development
Donald D. Brown
Adjunct Professor of Biology and Embryology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD USA
Staff Member, Department of Embryology
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Cold Spring Harbor, NY USA
Robert L. Letsinger
Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL USA
for pioneering contributions to sensory transduction
Eric R. Kandel
(2000 Nobel Prize)
University Professor
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, NY USA
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Professor of Biochemistry
The University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA USA
Keith R. Porter
Professor of Cell Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO USA
Alexander Rich
William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Stanley Cohen
(1986 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN USA
Rita Levi-Montalcini
(1986 Nobel Prize)
Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare
Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche
Rome, Italy
Gordon H. Sato
Professor of Biology
The University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA USA
Elias J. Corey
(1990 Nobel Prize)
Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
Bengt I. Samuelsson
(1982 Nobel Prize)
Dean of Medical Faculty
Kaolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Frank H. Westheimer
Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
Howard Green
Professor of Cell Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Beatrice Mintz
Senior Member
The Institute for Cancer Research
The Fox Chase Center
Philadelphia, PA USA
César Milstein
(1984 Nobel Prize)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, England
Barbara McClintock
(1983 Nobel Prize)
Distinguished Service Member
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Cold Spring Harbor, NY USA
Peter D. Mitchell
(1978 Nobel Prize)
Glynn Research Laboratories
Bodmin, Cornwall, England
Bruce Ames
Professor of Biochemistry
The University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA USA
James A. and Elizabeth C. Miller
Professor of Oncology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI USA
Arthur B. Pardee
Donner Professor of Science and
Professor of Biochemistry and Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ USA
H. Edwin Umbarger
Wright Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN USA
H. Ronald Kaback
Member
Roche Institute of Molecular Biology
Nutley, NJ USA
Rosenstiel Visiting Scholar
Saul Roseman
Professor, Department of Biology
McCollum-Pratt Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD USA
Boris Ephrussi
Honorary Director
Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
David H. Hubel
(1981 Nobel Prize)
George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
Torsten N. Wiesel
(1981 Nobel Prize)
Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA