Prix Gairdner (biomédecine)
Lauréats juifs du Prix Gairdner (biomédecine) répertoriés dans l'annuaire ThankJews. Les Juifs représentent environ 27 % de l'ensemble des lauréats — alors qu'ils constituent à peu près 0,2 % de la population mondiale.
107 lauréats répertoriés
Harry Rose
Médecin, co-describer of the rheumatoid-factor (Rose-Waaler) test
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Karl Meyer1899
Biochimiste qui a découvert hyaluronidase and studied connective-tissue chemistry
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Arnold Rich1893
Pathologiste connu pour research on tuberculosis and hypersensitivity
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Alexander Gutman1902
Médecin-scientist, research on uric acid metabolism and gout
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Stanley Sarnoff1917
Physiologiste and inventor of the auto-injector used for emergency drug delivery
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Seymour Benzer1921
Biologiste moléculaire who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Deborah Doniach1912
Immunologiste who helped establish the concept of organ-specific autoimmune disease.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ivan Roitt1927
Immunologiste who helped establish autoimmunity and authored a leading immunology textbook.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jerome Conn1907
Endocrinologist who first described primary aldosteronism (Conn's syndrome).
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Julius Axelrod1970
Showed that nerve endings take back the noradrenaline they release (reuptake) and discovered the enzyme COMT; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1970
Source : Wikipedia — Julius Axelrod / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1970
Marshall Nirenberg1968
Genetic Code
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1968
Sidney Udenfriend1918
Biochimiste who advanced neurochemistry and invented the fluorescence assay for serotonin
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Solomon Berson1918
Médecin who co-developed radioimmunoassay, enabling precise measurement of hormones in blood.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Rachmiel Levine1910
Endocrinologist who showed that insulin acts by promoting glucose transport into cells.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Rosalyn Yalow1977
A développé radioimmunoassay with Solomon Berson, a way of measuring minute amounts of hormones in the blood, which they chose not to patent; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1977
Source : Wikipedia — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1977
David Baltimore1975
A découvert reverse transcriptase (1970), the enzyme retroviruses such as HIV use to copy RNA into DNA; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1975; president of Caltech 1997–2006
Source : Wikipedia — David Baltimore / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1975
Juda Quastel1899
Biochimiste and a founder of neurochemistry and soil microbiology
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Howard Temin1975
Proposed the DNA provirus hypothesis (1964) and co-discovered reverse transcriptase (1970), showing that genetic information can flow from RNA to DNA; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1975
Source : Wikipedia — Howard Martin Temin / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1975
Ernest Beutler1928
Hematologist and geneticist who advanced the treatment of inherited blood and metabolic diseases.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Baruch Blumberg1976
Virus et vaccin de l'hépatite B
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1976
William Kannel1923
Cardiologue who led the Framingham Heart Study and coined the term 'risk factor'
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
George Klein1925
Tumor biologist who advanced understanding of viral oncology and tumor immunology.
Source : 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; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2002
Source : Wikipedia — Sydney Brenner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2002
Samuel Freedman
Biomedical researcher
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Phil Gold1936
Médecin qui a découvert carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a widely used cancer marker
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Paul Berg1972
Biochimiste who made the first recombinant DNA molecule in 1972, the starting point of genetic engineering, and organized the 1975 Asilomar conference on its safety; Prix Nobel de chimie 1980
Source : Wikipedia — Paul Berg / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1980
Irving Fritz1927
Biochimiste, research on carnitine and fatty-acid metabolism
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Efraim Racker1913
Biochimiste who reconstituted and elucidated the enzyme that synthesizes ATP.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jesse Roth1934
Endocrinologist who advanced the understanding of hormone receptors
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Sela1924
Immunologiste who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and pioneered synthetic antigens.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael S. Brown1941
A reçu le 1985 prix Nobel for discovering the LDL receptor and the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Source : 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; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1985
Source : Wikipedia — Joseph L. Goldstein / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1985
César Milstein1927
A reçu le 1984 prix Nobel for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Elizabeth Neufeld1928
Biochimiste who elucidated the cellular basis of lysosomal storage diseases.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Saul Roseman1921
Biochimiste regarded as a father of glycobiology
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Louis Siminovitch1920
Généticien regarded as a father of Canadian medical genetics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Bruce Ames1928
Biochimiste who devised the Ames test, a widely used assay for detecting chemical mutagens and carcinogens.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gerald Aurbach1927
Endocrinologist who advanced understanding of parathyroid hormone and calcium regulation
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Richard Gershon1932
Immunologiste qui a découvert suppressor (regulatory) T cells
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Alfred Gilman1941
A reçu le 1994 prix Nobel for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Martin Rodbell1925
A reçu le 1994 prix Nobel for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal transduction.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Harold Varmus1989
With Michael Bishop showed that retroviral oncogenes derive from normal cellular genes (proto-oncogenes), Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1989; réalisateur of the NIH 1993–1999 and of the…
Source : Wikipedia — Harold E. Varmus / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1989
Stanley Cohen1986
Facteurs de croissance
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Mark Ptashne1940
Biologiste moléculaire who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched on and off.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Charles Yanofsky1925
Généticien who demonstrated the colinearity of a gene and the protein it encodes.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Aser Rothstein1918
Physiologiste, research on cell-membrane transport
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Eric Kandel2000
Showed in the sea snail Aplysia how learning changes synapses and how short- and long-term memories are stored; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2000
Source : Wikipedia — Eric Kandel / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
Michael Rossmann1930
Structural biologist who solved the first atomic structure of a virus and identified the Rossmann fold.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Sir Michael Epstein
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Robert Lefkowitz1943
Médecin and biochemist who tracked down and characterised the G-protein-coupled receptors through which about half of all medicines act; Prix Nobel de chimie 2012
Source : Wikipedia — Robert Lefkowitz
Judah Folkman1933
Chirurgien qui a fondé the field of angiogenesis research, opening a new approach to cancer therapy; Gairdner Award in biomedicine
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Furchgott1916
A reçu le 1998 prix Nobel for discovering nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Bert Vogelstein1949
Cancer geneticist who mapped the genetic mutations driving colorectal cancer progression.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Weinberg1942
Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alvan Feinstein1925
Médecin regarded as a founder of clinical epidemiology and clinimetrics.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Prusiner1997
A découvert prions, infectious agents made of misfolded protein alone, the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and scrapie; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1997
Source : Wikipedia — Stanley Prusiner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1997
Bruce Alberts1938
Biochimiste, lead author of the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Arthur Kornberg1959
DNA Synthesis
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1959
Robert Langer1948
Biomedical engineer who pioneered controlled drug-delivery systems and tissue engineering.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
James Rothman1950
Biochimiste who uncovered the protein machinery of the SNAREs that lets vesicles dock and fuse with their targets inside cells; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2013
Source : Wikipedia — James Rothman
Randy Schekman1948
Cell biologist who used yeast genetics to find the genes that govern vesicle traffic and protein secretion in cells; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2013
Source : Wikipedia — Randy Schekman
Corey Goodman1951
Neuroscientifique connu pour discoveries on axon guidance and nervous system wiring
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Avram Hershko2004
Découverte de la dégradation des protéines par l'ubiquitine
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
H. Robert Horvitz1947
A reçu le 2002 prix Nobel for discoveries on the genetic regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alexander Varshavsky1946
Biologiste qui a découvert the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jack Hirsh1935
Hematologist, pionnier de anticoagulation therapy
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Roger Kornberg2006
Biochimiste who identified the nucleosome and captured the transcription machinery of eukaryotic cells in atomic detail; Prix Nobel de chimie 2006
Source : Wikipedia — Roger Kornberg
Marc Kirschner1945
Cell biologist connu pour work on the cytoskeleton and cell cycle control
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Eric Lander1957
Généticien who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Richard Axel1946
A reçu le 2004 prix Nobel for discovering odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ralph Steinman1943
Immunologiste qui a découvert the dendritic cell in 1973 and showed how it switches on adaptive immunity; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2011
Source : Wikipedia — Ralph Steinman
Arthur Horwich1951
Biologiste qui a découvert chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
George Sachs
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Andrew Fire2006
Lauréat du prix Nobel in medicine (2006) for the discovery of RNA interference (gene silencing)
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 2006
Jeffrey Friedman1954
Molecular geneticist qui a découvert leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and body weight.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald M. Evans1949
Biologiste moléculaire qui a découvert the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alan Bernstein1947
Biologiste moléculaire and cancer/stem-cell researcher, founding head of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gary Ruvkun1952
Biologiste moléculaire who, with Victor Ambros, a découvert microRNA and its role in gene regulation, and showed in 2000 that the second microRNA, let-7, is conserved across animals; Prix Nobel de…
Source : Wikipedia — Gary Ruvkun / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2024
Nahum Sonenberg1946
Biochimiste who elucidated the control of protein synthesis (translation) initiation
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Samuel Weiss
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Richard Losick1943
Biologiste moléculaire connu pour work on gene regulation and bacterial development
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Lucy Shapiro1940
Developmental biologist who revealed how bacterial cells control their cycle in space and time.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Pierre Chambon1931
Biologiste moléculaire qui a découvert split genes and pioneered the study of nuclear hormone receptors.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Howard Cedar1943
Biologiste moléculaire who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Hayden
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Aharon Razin1935
Biochimiste who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Thomas Jessell
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Jeffrey Ravetch1951
Immunologiste who elucidated the role of antibody Fc receptors in immunity
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Rosbash1944
Généticien who with Jeffrey Hall isolated the period gene and showed how its protein drives the feedback loop of the circadian clock; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2017
Source : Wikipedia — Michael Rosbash
Harvey Alter1935
A reçu le 2020 prix Nobel for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Marc Feldmann1944
Immunologiste who pioneered anti-TNF therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael N. Hall2023
A découvert the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences
David Julius1955
A reçu le 2021 prix Nobel in Medicine for discovering receptors for temperature and touch
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Lewis Kay1962
Biophysicien, developer of NMR methods for protein structure and dynamics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Susan Horwitz1937
Pharmacologue who determined the mechanism of the anticancer drug Taxol.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald Vale1959
Cell biologist qui a découvert kinesin, a motor protein that transports cargo within cells.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Daniel Drucker1956
Endocrinologist whose GLP-1 research underlies modern diabetes and obesity drugs.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stuart Orkin
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Drew Weissman2023
Médecin and immunologist who with Katalin Karikó found the nucleoside base modifications that made mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 possible; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2023
Source : Wikipedia — Drew Weissman
Bonnie Bassler1962
Microbiologiste who elucidated quorum sensing, the chemical communication between bacteria.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
E. Peter Greenberg1948
Microbiologiste who helped discover bacterial quorum sensing
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Silverman
Biomedical researcher
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Zelig Eshhar1941
Immunologiste qui a inventé the CAR-T cell, the basis of modern cancer immunotherapy.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
David Klenerman1959
Chimiste who co-invented next-generation DNA sequencing (the technology behind Illumina/Solexa).
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Iva Greenwald1958
Developmental biologist, research on Notch signaling
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gary Struhl1953
Developmental biologist, research on morphogen signaling in Drosophila
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science