Premio Lasker (investigación médica básica)
Galardonados judíos del Premio Lasker (investigación médica básica) documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 30 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
52 galardonados documentados
Selman Waksman1943
Estreptomicina (primer antibiótico contra la tuberculosis), descubrió in his Rutgers laboratory; coined the term antibiotics; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1952
Fuente: Wikipedia — Selman Waksman
Hans Krebs1953
Discovery of the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle) in cellular metabolism
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1953
Michael Heidelberger1888
Regarded as the father of modern immunochemistry for quantifying the antibody-antigen reaction.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
George Wald1906
Recibió el 1967 Premio Nobel for discovering the biochemical processes of vision in the retina.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Karl Meyer1899
Bioquímico que descubrió hyaluronidase and studied connective-tissue chemistry
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Theodore Puck1916
Genetista que desarrolló methods to grow and clone single mammalian cells, founding somatic cell genetics.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat1910
Virólogo who reconstituted infectious tobacco mosaic virus from its separated protein and RNA.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jules Freund1890
Inmunólogo que desarrolló Freund's adjuvant, a widely used booster of immune response.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Harry Rubin1926
Virólogo conocido por work on Rous sarcoma virus and cancer cell biology
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Bernard Brodie1907
Farmacólogo widely regarded as the father of modern drug metabolism research.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Marshall Nirenberg1968
Genetic Code
Fuente: Nobel Prize Medicine 1968
Seymour Benzer1921
Biólogo molecular who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Sydney Brenner2002
Helped establish messenger RNA and the triplet genetic code, and made the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans a model for the genetics of development; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2002
Fuente: Wikipedia — Sydney Brenner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2002
Charles Yanofsky1925
Genetista who demonstrated the colinearity of a gene and the protein it encodes.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ludwik Gross1904
Pionero de viral oncology who showed that viruses can transmit cancer in mammals.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Sol Spiegelman1914
Biólogo molecular que desarrolló nucleic acid hybridization, a foundational technique in genetics.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Howard Temin1975
Proposed the DNA provirus hypothesis (1964) and co-discovered reverse transcriptase (1970), showing that genetic information can flow from RNA to DNA; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1975
Fuente: Wikipedia — Howard Martin Temin / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1975
Rosalyn Yalow1977
Desarrolló radioimmunoassay with Solomon Berson, a way of measuring minute amounts of hormones in the blood, which they chose not to patent; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1977
Fuente: Wikipedia — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1977
John Vane1927
Recibió el 1982 Premio Nobel for discovering how aspirin works and the biology of prostaglandins.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Hans Kosterlitz1903
Farmacólogo who co-discovered the enkephalins, the brain's natural opioids.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Solomon Snyder1938
Neurocientífico who identified opiate receptors in the brain, transforming neuropharmacology.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Paul Berg1972
Bioquímico who made the first recombinant DNA molecule in 1972, the starting point of genetic engineering, and organized the 1975 Asilomar conference on its safety; Premio Nobel de Química 1980
Fuente: Wikipedia — Paul Berg / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1980
Stanley N. Cohen1935
Genetista who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Harold Varmus1989
With Michael Bishop showed that retroviral oncogenes derive from normal cellular genes (proto-oncogenes), Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1989; director of the NIH 1993–1999 and of the National…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Harold E. Varmus / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1989
Eric Kandel2000
Showed in the sea snail Aplysia how learning changes synapses and how short- and long-term memories are stored; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2000
Fuente: Wikipedia — Eric Kandel / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
César Milstein1927
Recibió el 1984 Premio Nobel for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael S. Brown1941
Recibió el 1985 Premio Nobel for discovering the LDL receptor and the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Joseph Goldstein1940
With Michael Brown discovered the LDL receptor (1973) and how cells regulate cholesterol, the scientific basis of statin drugs; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1985
Fuente: Wikipedia — Joseph L. Goldstein / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1985
Rita Levi-Montalcini1986
Discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF), first isolated in 1952; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1986; senator for life of Italy from 2001
Fuente: Wikipedia — Rita Levi-Montalcini / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1986
Stanley Cohen1986
Factores de crecimiento
Fuente: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Philip Leder1989
Helped crack the genetic code and pioneered antibody genetics; Medalla Nacional de Ciencia (1989)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
Alfred Gilman1941
Recibió el 1994 Premio Nobel for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Prusiner1997
Descubrió prions, infectious agents made of misfolded protein alone, the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and scrapie; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1997
Fuente: Wikipedia — Stanley Prusiner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1997
Jack Strominger1925
Bioquímico who determined the structure of the human MHC molecules central to immune recognition.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Furchgott1916
Recibió el 1998 Premio Nobel for discovering nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Mark Ptashne1940
Biólogo molecular who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched on and off.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Aaron Ciechanover2004
Descubrimiento de la degradación de proteínas mediada por ubiquitina
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Avram Hershko2004
Descubrimiento de la degradación de proteínas mediada por ubiquitina
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Alexander Varshavsky1946
Biólogo que descubrió the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
James Rothman1950
Bioquímico who uncovered the protein machinery of the SNAREs that lets vesicles dock and fuse with their targets inside cells; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2013
Fuente: Wikipedia — James Rothman
Randy Schekman1948
Cell biologist who used yeast genetics to find the genes that govern vesicle traffic and protein secretion in cells; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2013
Fuente: Wikipedia — Randy Schekman
Pierre Chambon1931
Biólogo molecular que descubrió split genes and pioneered the study of nuclear hormone receptors.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald M. Evans1949
Biólogo molecular que descubrió the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ralph Steinman1943
Inmunólogo que descubrió the dendritic cell in 1973 and showed how it switches on adaptive immunity; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2011
Fuente: Wikipedia — Ralph Steinman
Gary Ruvkun1952
Biólogo molecular who, with Victor Ambros, descubrió microRNA and its role in gene regulation, and showed in 2000 that the second microRNA, let-7, is conserved across animals; Premio Nobel de…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Gary Ruvkun / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2024
Jeffrey Friedman1954
Molecular geneticist que descubrió leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and body weight.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Arthur Horwich1951
Biólogo que descubrió chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald Vale1959
Cell biologist que descubrió kinesin, a motor protein that transports cargo within cells.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Evelyn Witkin1921
Genetista que descubrió the bacterial SOS response and advanced the study of DNA repair.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael N. Hall2023
Descubrió the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences
Michael Grunstein1946
Biólogo molecular who showed histones regulate gene expression
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science