We celebrate our outstanding faculty, staff, students, and trainees whose achievements exemplify our mission.
National/International recognition
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2
Presidential National Medal of Science, 2
Presidential Early Career Award, 8
Canada Gairdner Foundation Awards, 7
Lasker Foundation Awards, 4
National Academy of Medicine, 29
National Academy of Science, 12
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 5
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
E. Donnall Thomas, 1990
Leland Hartwell, 2001
Presidential National Medal of Science
E. Donnall Thomas, 1990
Mary-Claire King, 2014
Presidential Early Career Award
Effie Petersdorf, 1999
David Russell, 2000
Charles Murry, 2000
Marshall Horwitz, 2002
David Cummings, 2004
William Grady, 2005
Muneesh Tewari, 2009
Kristina Utzschneider, 2010
Canada Gairdner Foundation Awards
Belding Scribner, 1969
E. Donnall Thomas, 1990
Leland Hartwell, 1992
Robert Waterston, 2002
Maynard Olson, 2002
King Holmes, 2013
Mary-Claire King, 2021
Lasker Foundation Awards
Leroy Hood, 1987
Leland Hartwell, 1998
Belding Scribner, 2002
Mary-Claire King, 2014
National Academy of Medicine
| 1970 | Paul Beeson |
| 1973 | James Haviland |
| 1973 | Robert Petersdorf |
| 1974 | Arno Motulsky |
| 1974 | Maureen Henderson |
| 1978 | Neil Elgee |
| 1978 | Robert Van Citters |
| 1979 | Alvin Thompson |
| 1980 | Belding Scribner |
| 1982 | John Chase |
| 1987 | King Holmes |
| 1988 | Edwin Bierman |
| 1990 | Joseph Eschbach |
| 1991 | Philip Fialkow |
| 1992 | Seymour Klebanoff |
| 1994 | Mary-Claire King |
| 1994 | Mickey Eisenberg |
| 1995 | Linda Rosenstock |
| 2000 | Paul Ramsey |
| 2001 | Robert Waterston |
| 2003 | Leroy Hood |
| 2006 | Judith Wasserheit |
| 2007 | Eric Larson |
| 2008 | Lawrence Corey |
| 2011 | Nancy Davidson |
| 2013 | Janis Abkowitz |
| 2013 | Bruce Psaty |
| 2013 | Frederick Appelbaum |
| 2020 | Joel Kaufman |
National Academy of Sciences
| 1969 | Paul Beeson |
| 1974 | Clement Finch |
| 1976 | Arno Motulsky |
| 1980 | Eloise Giblett |
| 1982 | E. Donnall Thomas |
| 1987 | Seymour Klebanoff |
| 1989 | Stanley Gartler |
| 1990 | John A. Glomset |
| 1994 | Maynard Olson |
| 2000 | Robert Waterston |
| 2000 | Stanley Fields |
| 2005 | Mary-Claire King |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
William Hazzard, 1972-1980
Arthur Thompson, 1973-1975
John A. Glomset, 1976-2006
Maynard Olson, 1989-1992
Stanley Fields, 1997-2018