Award in medical research from Brandeis University
The Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic MedicalResearch is awarded by Brandeis University. It was established in 1971 "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".[1]
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.[2]
The Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, named after Lewis Solon Rosenstiel, was established in 1968, carrying out research in basic medical science.
2023 Wolfgang Baumeister, 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
2022 Christine Holt and Erin Schuman, for their pioneering work that shed light on the role of local protein synthesis in neuronal development and function.
2021 Robert H. Singer, for his key role in revealing the dynamics of gene expression using high-resolution imaging.
2020 Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, for their pioneering work in the modification of nucleic acids to develop RNA therapeutics and vaccines.
2019 David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for their remarkable contributions to our understanding of the sensations of temperature, pain and touch.
2018 Stephen C. Harrison, for his fundamental and far-reaching studies of protein structure using X-ray crystallography
2017 Titia de Lange, for her elucidation of the protection of telomeres and the maintenance of genome stability
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 [4]
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
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
