Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award

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The Robert J. And Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Awards were awarded annually for distinguished accomplishment in three vital areas of investigation: neuropsychiatry, cardiovascular disease, and cancer research. The program ran from 1987 to 2013. Each area of research is allocated $50,000 to award to its winners.

History of the Awards

The Pasarow Foundation was created in 1987 by Mr. and Mrs. Pasarow of Beverly Hills, California to stimulate medical and scientific research. Robert Pasarow was the founder and former President/CEO/Chairman of the Board of CHB Foods, Inc. The Pasarows established the Claire and Robert J. Pasarow Cancer Laboratory at the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at the University of Southern California as well as the Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the University of California Los Angeles. Robert J. Pasarow, now deceased, was the founding President and Chairman of the Foundation and Claire Pasarow, also deceased, was the Chief Financial Officer.

Members of the Board of Directors

The members of the board of directors are:

  • Michael Pasarow, Chairman
  • Anthony Pasarow, Co-Treasurer
  • Susan A. Pasarow, MSW, Co-Treasurer
  • Jack Barchas, MD, President
  • Shaun Coughlin, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco
  • Christopher J. Evans, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Ronald Evans, PhD, The Salk Institute
  • Brian E. Henderson, MD, University of Southern California
  • Alexander Varshavsky, PhD, Cal Tech

Criteria for Nomination

The principal criterion for nomination is evidence of extraordinary accomplishment in medical science.

Nominators provide a one-page letter of intent stating the rationale for the nomination and a copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae and bibliography in two-page NIH format. Applications will be reviewed by the Board of Directors in consultation with various medical scholars.

Past Winners

Year Cancer Award Cardiovascular Award Neuropsychiatry
1987 Peter K. Vogt, Ph.D., University Of Southern California Burton E. Sobel, M.D., Washington University Nancey Wexler
1988 Irving Weissman, M.D., Stanford University Harvey Feigenbaum, M.D., Indiana University Eric Kandel
1989 George F. Vande Woude, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute Bernardo Nadal-Ginard, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University Floyd Bloom
1990 Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D., University of Maryland Solomon Snyder
1991 Harold M. Weintraub, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Research Center Jonathan G. Seidman, Ph.D. & Christine E. Seidman, M.D., Harvard University Michael E. Phelps
1992 Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Glenn A. Langer, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine Patricia Goldman-Rakic
1993 Stanley Korsmeyer, M.D., Washington University Philip Majerus, M.D., Washington University Huda Akil and Stanley Watson
1994 Carlo M. Croce, M.D., Jefferson Cancer Center Jan L. Breslow, M.D., Rockefeller University Arvid Carlsson, Philip Seeman
1995 Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center Kenneth R. Chien, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Stanley Prusiner
1996 Robert A. Weinberg, M.D., MIT and Whitehead Institute Michael A. Grimbrone, Jr., M.D., Harvard University Joseph T. Coyle
1997 Eric S. Lander, DPhil, MIT Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas, Southwestern Eric J. Nestler
1998 Paul L. Modrich, Ph.D., Duke University Mark T. Keating, M.D., University of Utah Fred Gage
1999 Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIH Eric N. Olson, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Michael I. Posner and Marcus Raichle
2000 Alexander J. Varshavsky, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine
2001 Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., Harvard University Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., Duke University Medical Center
2002 Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D., Stanford University Shaun Coughlin, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
2003 Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D, University of California San Francisco Judah Folkman, M.D. Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital
2004 Fred W. Alt, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Barry S. Coller, M.D, Rockefeller University
2005 Bert W. O’Malley, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., University of California at Irvine
2006 Tony Hunter, Ph.D, Salk Institute for Biological Studies[1] Daniel Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D, University of California
2007 Bert Vogelstein, M.D., Johns Hopkins University Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 Inder M. Verma, Ph.D., Salk Institute David Ginsburg, M.D., University of Michigan Medical School
2009 Brian J. Druker, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute David Ginsburg, M.D., University of Michigan Medical School
2010
2011 Andrew R. Marks, M.D., Columbia University
2012 Professor Peter J Ratcliffe FRS, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
2013 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University; Richard Peto, University of Oxford; Matthew P. Scott, Ph.D., Stanford University Hal Dietz, M.D., Johns Hopkins University; Charles T. Esmon, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; Helen H. Hobbs, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University; Helen S. Mayberg, M.D., Emory University; Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Stanford University

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