Nagroda Fundacji Gairdnera (biomedycyna)
Żydowscy laureaci nagrody „Nagroda Fundacji Gairdnera (biomedycyna)” udokumentowani w katalogu ThankJews. Żydzi stanowią około 27% wszystkich laureatów — przy około 0,2% udziału w ludności świata.
107 udokumentowanych laureatów
Harry Rose
Physician, co-describer of the rheumatoid-factor (Rose-Waaler) test
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Karl Meyer1899
Biochemist who discovered hyaluronidase and studied connective-tissue chemistry
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Arnold Rich1893
Pathologist known for research on tuberculosis and hypersensitivity
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Alexander Gutman1902
Physician-scientist, research on uric acid metabolism and gout
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Stanley Sarnoff1917
Physiologist and inventor of the auto-injector used for emergency drug delivery
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Seymour Benzer1921
Molecular biologist who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Deborah Doniach1912
Immunologist who helped establish the concept of organ-specific autoimmune disease.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ivan Roitt1927
Immunologist who helped establish autoimmunity and authored a leading immunology textbook.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jerome Conn1907
Endocrinologist who first described primary aldosteronism (Conn's syndrome).
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Julius Axelrod1970
Neurotransmitters
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1970
Marshall Nirenberg1968
Genetic Code
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1968
Sidney Udenfriend1918
Biochemist who advanced neurochemistry and invented the fluorescence assay for serotonin
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Solomon Berson1918
Physician who co-developed radioimmunoassay, enabling precise measurement of hormones in blood.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Rachmiel Levine1910
Endocrinologist who showed that insulin acts by promoting glucose transport into cells.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Rosalyn Yalow1977
Radioimmunoassay
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1977
David Baltimore1975
Reverse Transcriptase
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1975
Juda Quastel1899
Biochemist and a founder of neurochemistry and soil microbiology
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Howard Temin1975
Reverse Transcriptase
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1975
Ernest Beutler1928
Hematologist and geneticist who advanced the treatment of inherited blood and metabolic diseases.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Baruch Blumberg1976
Hepatitis B Virus and Vaccine
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1976
William Kannel1923
Cardiologist who led the Framingham Heart Study and coined the term 'risk factor'
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
George Klein1925
Tumor biologist who advanced understanding of viral oncology and tumor immunology.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Sydney Brenner2002
Genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 2002
Samuel Freedman
Biomedical researcher
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Phil Gold1936
Physician who discovered carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a widely used cancer marker
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
Źródło: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Paul Berg1972
Recombinant DNA
Źródło: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Irving Fritz1927
Biochemist, research on carnitine and fatty-acid metabolism
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Efraim Racker1913
Biochemist who reconstituted and elucidated the enzyme that synthesizes ATP.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jesse Roth1934
Endocrinologist who advanced the understanding of hormone receptors
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Sela1924
Immunologist who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and pioneered synthetic antigens.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael S. Brown1941
Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Joseph Goldstein1940
Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
César Milstein1927
Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Elizabeth Neufeld1928
Biochemist who elucidated the cellular basis of lysosomal storage diseases.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Saul Roseman1921
Biochemist regarded as a father of glycobiology
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Louis Siminovitch1920
Geneticist regarded as a father of Canadian medical genetics
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Bruce Ames1928
Biochemist who devised the Ames test, a widely used assay for detecting chemical mutagens and carcinogens.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gerald Aurbach1927
Endocrinologist who advanced understanding of parathyroid hormone and calcium regulation
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Richard Gershon1932
Immunologist who discovered suppressor (regulatory) T cells
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Alfred Gilman1941
Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Martin Rodbell1925
Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal transduction.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Harold Varmus1989
Oncogenes and Cancer Biology
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1989
Stanley Cohen1986
Growth Factors
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Mark Ptashne1940
Molecular biologist who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched on and off.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Charles Yanofsky1925
Geneticist who demonstrated the colinearity of a gene and the protein it encodes.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Aser Rothstein1918
Physiologist, research on cell-membrane transport
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Eric Kandel2000
Signal transduction in the nervous system underlying memory
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 2000
Michael Rossmann1930
Structural biologist who solved the first atomic structure of a virus and identified the Rossmann fold.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Sir Michael Epstein
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Robert Lefkowitz1943
Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Judah Folkman1933
Surgeon who founded the field of angiogenesis research, opening a new approach to cancer therapy; Gairdner Award in biomedicine
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Furchgott1916
Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for discovering nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Bert Vogelstein1949
Cancer geneticist who mapped the genetic mutations driving colorectal cancer progression.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Weinberg1942
Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alvan Feinstein1925
Physician regarded as a founder of clinical epidemiology and clinimetrics.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Prusiner1997
Discovery of prions, a new biological principle of infection
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1997
Bruce Alberts1938
Biochemist, lead author of the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Arthur Kornberg1959
DNA Synthesis
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1959
Robert Langer1948
Biomedical engineer who pioneered controlled drug-delivery systems and tissue engineering.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
James Rothman1950
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Randy Schekman1948
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering genes controlling the cell's vesicle transport system.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Corey Goodman1951
Neuroscientist known for discoveries on axon guidance and nervous system wiring
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Avram Hershko2004
Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
H. Robert Horvitz1947
Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alexander Varshavsky1946
Biologist who discovered the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Jack Hirsh1935
Hematologist, pioneer of anticoagulation therapy
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Roger Kornberg2006
Studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2006
Marc Kirschner1945
Cell biologist known for work on the cytoskeleton and cell cycle control
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Eric Lander1957
Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Richard Axel1946
Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for discovering odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ralph Steinman1943
Awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for discovering dendritic cells and their role in adaptive immunity.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Arthur Horwich1951
Biologist who discovered chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
George Sachs
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Andrew Fire2006
Nobel laureate in medicine (2006) for the discovery of RNA interference (gene silencing)
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 2006
Jeffrey Friedman1954
Molecular geneticist who discovered leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and body weight.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald M. Evans1949
Molecular biologist who discovered the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alan Bernstein1947
Molecular biologist and cancer/stem-cell researcher, founding head of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gary Ruvkun1952
Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Nahum Sonenberg1946
Biochemist who elucidated the control of protein synthesis (translation) initiation
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Samuel Weiss
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Richard Losick1943
Molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation and bacterial development
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Lucy Shapiro1940
Developmental biologist who revealed how bacterial cells control their cycle in space and time.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Pierre Chambon1931
Molecular biologist who discovered split genes and pioneered the study of nuclear hormone receptors.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Howard Cedar1943
Molecular biologist who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Hayden
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Aharon Razin1935
Biochemist who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Thomas Jessell
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Jeffrey Ravetch1951
Immunologist who elucidated the role of antibody Fc receptors in immunity
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Rosbash1944
Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for discovering molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Harvey Alter1935
Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Marc Feldmann1944
Immunologist who pioneered anti-TNF therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael N. Hall2023
Discovered the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences
David Julius1955
Awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering receptors for temperature and touch
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Lewis Kay1962
Biophysicist, developer of NMR methods for protein structure and dynamics
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Susan Horwitz1937
Pharmacologist who determined the mechanism of the anticancer drug Taxol.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald Vale1959
Cell biologist who discovered kinesin, a motor protein that transports cargo within cells.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Daniel Drucker1956
Endocrinologist whose GLP-1 research underlies modern diabetes and obesity drugs.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stuart Orkin
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Drew Weissman2023
Nucleoside base modifications enabling effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 2023
Bonnie Bassler1962
Microbiologist who elucidated quorum sensing, the chemical communication between bacteria.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
E. Peter Greenberg1948
Microbiologist who helped discover bacterial quorum sensing
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Silverman
Biomedical researcher
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Zelig Eshhar1941
Immunologist who invented the CAR-T cell, the basis of modern cancer immunotherapy.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
David Klenerman1959
Chemist who co-invented next-generation DNA sequencing (the technology behind Illumina/Solexa).
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Iva Greenwald1958
Developmental biologist, research on Notch signaling
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gary Struhl1953
Developmental biologist, research on morphogen signaling in Drosophila
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science