- Gruber Prize in Genetics
The Gruber Prize in Genetics is one five, international awards made by the
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation , an American non-profit organization based in theU.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Genetics Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is $500,000.The Genetics Prize honors leading scientists for distinguished contributions in any realm of genetics research. The Foundation’s other international prizes are in Cosmology, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women’s Rights.
Recipients
*2008 Allan C. Spradling, PhD, of the
Carnegie Institution for Science andHoward Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics
*2007Maynard Olson of theUniversity of Washington , abioinformatics specialist
*2006Elizabeth Blackburn , a cell biologist specializing intelomer s
*2005Robert Hugh Waterston
*2004Mary Claire King
*2003David Botstein
*2002H. Robert Horvitz
*2001Rudolf Jaenisch External links
[http://www.gruberprizes.org Gruber Foundation Web site]
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