Gabbay Award Winners
for his pioneering research in gene editing with the potential to cure inherited disease
David Liu
Richard Merkin Professor
Director, Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
Core Member, Broad Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
in recognition of their contributions in the field of targeted protein degradation, spearheading the development of PROTACs
Craig Crews
John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Department of Chemistry
Department of Pharmacology
Executive Director, Yale Center for Molecular Discovery
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
Raymond Deshaies
Senior Vice President, Global Research
Amgen, Inc.
Visiting Associate, Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Thousand Oaks, CA USA
in recognition of his contributions to structural biology through the development of Camelid single-domain antibodies or nanobodies
Jan Steyaert
Full Professor & Francqui Research Professor
Scientific Co-Director, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium
in recognition of their development of a therapy for the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy
C. Frank Bennett
Executive Vice President
Chief Scientific Officer
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Carlsbad, CA USA
Adrian R. Krainer
St. Giles Foundation Professor
Cancer Center Deputy Director of Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY USA
in recognition of their pioneering work in the development of CAR T-cell therapy for cancer
Dario Campana
Mrs. Lee Kong Chian Chair in Advanced Cellular Therapy
Professor, Department of Paediatrics
Centre for Translational Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Republic of Singapore
Michel Sadelain
Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair
Director, Center for Cell Engineering
Member, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
Member, Department of Medicine, Memorial Hospital
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY USA
in recognition of his innovative and transformative contributions to the fields of stem cell biology and patient-specific, cell-based therapy
Lorenz Studer
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology
Member, Developmental Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY USA
for his inventive work in synthetic biology that created a new area of research, enabling multiple biomedical applications and launching a new sector of the biotechnology industry
James J. Collins
Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science
Professor of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Core Founding Faculty, Wyss Institute
Harvard University
Institute Member, Broad Institute
Cambridge, MA USA
in recognition of his profound and paradigm-shifting contributions to our understanding of protein folding mechanisms and protein misfolding diseases
Jeffery W. Kelly
Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
Chairman, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA USA
in recognition of his contributions to both the basic science of microfluidics and its applications to biomedical research
Stephen Quake
Lee Otterson Professor of Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Faculty Fellow, Stanford ChEM-H
Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
in recognition of their work on the CRISPR/cas system
Feng Zhang
Core Member, Broad Institute
W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Jennifer Doudna
(2020 Nobel Prize)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
The University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA USA
Emmanuelle Charpentier
(2020 Nobel Prize)
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
Head, Department of Regulation in Infection Biology
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Braunschweig, Germany
in recognition of their contributions to the discovery and applications of optogentics
Karl Deisseroth
D. H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
HHMI Early Career Scientist
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
Gero Miesenböck
Waynflete Professor of Physiology
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
University of Oxford
Oxford, England
Edward Boyden
Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group
Associate Professor, Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Depts. of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
for identifying the cellular effects of bisphenol in plastics
Patricia Hunt
Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences
Washington State University
Pullman, WA USA
Ana M. Soto
Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA USA
Carlos Sonnenschein
Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA USA
for the development of strategies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and for immunotherapy of cancer
James P. Allison
(2018 Nobel Prize)
Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Chairman, Immunology Program
David H. Koch Chair in Immunologic Studies
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Attending Immunologist, Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY USA
for her discovery and development of aromatase inhibitors as a treatment for breast cancer
Angela Hartley Brodie
Professor of Pharmacology
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
for their significant contributions in the field of assisted human reproduction
Alan H. Handyside
Visiting Professor
Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
University of Leeds
Consultant in Pre-implantation Genetics
The London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre
Co-director
Bridge Genoma
London, England
Ann A. Kiessling
Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Director
Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Boston, MA USA
Gianpiero D. Palermo
Associate Professor of Reproductive Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director, Assisted Fertilization and Andrology
The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility
New York, NY USA
for his discovery of regulated protein turnover in bacteria and mitochondria and development of proteasome inhibitors as a treatment for cancer
Alfred Goldberg
Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
for pioneering the technology of gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem (ES) cells
Mario R. Capecchi
(2007 Nobel Prize)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics
The University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT USA
for their role in the development of contrast agents used in cardio-diagnostic procedures
Alan Davison
Professor emeritus of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Alun Gareth Jones
Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
for their role in the development and use of molecular beacons as a diagnostic tool in vitro, and in the detection of RNA in living cells
Fred R. Kramer
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
New Jersey Medical School
Member, Public Health Research Institute
Newark, NJ USA
Sanjay Tyagi
Aassociate Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Member, Public Health Research Institute
Newark, NJ USA
for his many contributions to the biotechnology industry
George M. Whitesides
Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
for their development of yeast two-hybrid and yeast mating interaction traps
Roger Brent
President and Research Director
The Molecular Sciences Institute
Berkeley, CA USA
Stanley Fields
Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA
for their pioneering achievements in developing antibodies as pharmaceutical proteins for the treatment of human diseases
William H. Rastetter
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation
San Diego, CA USA
Dennis J. Slamon
Executive Vice Chair for Research and
Professor of Medicine
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA USA
Gregory P. Winter
(2018 Nobel Prize)
Head of Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, England
for his pioneering achievements in miniaturization of fundamental biochemical experiments
J. Michael Ramsey
Group Leader, Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN USA
for his leadership in genome sequencing
J. Craig Venter
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Celera Genomics
Rockville, MD USA
for their entrepreneurial roles in the creation of some of the most successful biotechnology firms
David V. Goeddel
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Tularik, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA USA
Thomas P. Maniatis
Thomas H. Lee Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USA
William J. Rutter
Chairman emeritus
Chiron Corporation
Emeryville, CA USA
for their development of microarray methods for the analysis of gene expression on a genome-wide scale
Patrick O. Brown
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
Stephen P. A. Fodor
Research Scientist
Affymetrix, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA USA