Gruber Prize in Genetics

The Gruber Prize in Genetics
Awarded for	Groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research
Location	Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut
Country
Presented by	Gruber Foundation
Reward	US$500,000
First awarded	2001
Official website	gruber.yale.edu

The Gruber Prize in Genetics, established in 2001, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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

• 2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany and Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley
• 2014 Victor Ambros, PhD, University of Massachusetts; David Baulcombe, PhD, University of Cambridge; and Gary Ruvkun, PhD, Harvard University
• 2013 Svante Pääbo, PhD
• 2012 Douglas C. Wallace, PhD
• 2011 Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Stanford University
• 2010 Gerald Fink, PhD, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor at MIT
• 2009 Janet Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
• 2008 Allan C. Spradling, PhD, of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics
• 2007 Maynard Olson of the University of Washington, a bioinformatics specialist
• 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist specializing in telomeres
• 2005 Robert Hugh Waterston
• 2004 Mary Claire King
• 2003 David Botstein
• 2002 H. Robert Horvitz
• 2001 Rudolf Jaenisch

External links

• Gruber Foundation Web site
• Gruber Prizes nomination page
• Facebook page for The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation