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Wolf Prize in Medicine, the Glossary

The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.^[1]

78 relations: Adrian Krainer (scientist), Affinity chromatography, Aharon Razin, Alexander Levitzki, Alexander Varshavsky, Anthony R. Hunter, Arvid Carlsson, Avram Hershko, Axel Ullrich, Barbara McClintock, Botond Roska, C. Ronald Kahn, César Milstein, Daniel J. Drucker, Donald F. Steiner, Edward B. Lewis, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Eric Kandel, Gary Ruvkun, George Davis Snell, Henri G. Hers, Howard Cedar, Israel, James Black (pharmacologist), James Learmonth Gowans, James P. Allison, Jean Dausset, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Jeffrey V. Ravetch, Jennifer Doudna, Joan A. Steitz, John Gurdon, John Kappler, Jon van Rood, José-Alain Sahel, Judah Folkman, Leo Sachs, Lewis C. Cantley, List of medicine awards, Lynne E. Maquat, Maclyn McCarty, Mario Capecchi, Mary F. Lyon, Meir Wilchek, Michael Berridge, Michael Sela, Nahum Sonenberg, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ... Expand index (28 more) »
1978 establishments in Israel
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Adrian Krainer (scientist)

Adrian Robert Krainer is a Uruguayan-American biochemist and molecular geneticist known for his research into RNA gene-splicing.

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Affinity chromatography

Affinity chromatography is a method of separating a biomolecule from a mixture, based on a highly specific macromolecular binding interaction between the biomolecule and another substance.

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Aharon Razin

Aharon Razin (Hebrew: אהרון רזין; April 6, 1935 – May 27, 2019) was an Israeli biochemist.

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Alexander Levitzki (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לויצקי; born 13 August 1940) is an Israeli biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Alexander Varshavsky

Alexander J. Varshavsky (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Варшавский; born 1946 in Moscow) is a Russian-American biochemist and geneticist.

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Anthony R. Hunter

Anthony Rex Hunter (born 23 August 1943) is a British-American biologist who is a professor of biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California San Diego.

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Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 – 29 June 2018) was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease.

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Avram Hershko

Avram Hershko (Avraham Hershko, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.

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Axel Ullrich

Axel Ullrich (born 19 October 1943) is a German cancer researcher and has been the director of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988.

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Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Botond Roska

Botond Roska (born 1969) is a Hungarian medical doctor and biomedical researcher.

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C. Ronald Kahn

Carl Ronald Kahn (born January 14, 1944) is an American physician and scientist, best known for his work with insulin receptors and insulin resistance in diabetes and obesity.

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César Milstein

César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research.

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Daniel J. Drucker

Daniel Joshua Drucker (born 23 June 1956) is a Canadian endocrinologist.

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Donald F. Steiner

Donald Frederick Steiner (July 15, 1930 – November 11, 2014) was an American biochemist and a professor at the University of Chicago.

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Edward B. Lewis

Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Elizabeth F. Neufeld

Elizabeth Fondal Neufeld (born September 27, 1928) is a French-American geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry.

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Eric Kandel

Eric Richard Kandel (born Erich Richard Kandel, November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

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Gary Ruvkun

Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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George Davis Snell

George Davis Snell NAS (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.

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Henri G. Hers

Henri-Géry Hers (23 July 1923 – 14 December 2008) was a Belgian physiologist and biochemist, and a professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain.

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Howard Cedar

Howard Chaim Cedar (Hebrew: חיים סידר; born January 12, 1943) is an Israeli American biochemist who works on DNA methylation, a mechanism that turns genes on and off.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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James Black (pharmacologist)

Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist.

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James Learmonth Gowans

Sir James Learmonth "Jim" Gowans (7 May 1924 – 1 April 2020) was a British physician and immunologist.

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James P. Allison

James Patrick Allison (born August 7, 1948) is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

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Jean Dausset

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France.

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Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 6 April 1936) is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (with a focus on the allosteric proteins), to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions.

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Jeffrey M. Friedman

Jeffrey M. Friedman (born July 20, 1954) is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Jeffrey V. Ravetch

Jeffrey Victor Ravetch (born 1951) is a professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at The Rockefeller University.

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Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Anne Doudna (born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics.

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Joan A. Steitz

Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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John Gurdon

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.

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John Kappler

John Wayne Kappler (born December 22, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland) is a professor in the Department of Integrated Immunology at National Jewish Health.

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Jon van Rood

Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (7 April 1926, Scheveningen – 21 July 2017) was a Dutch immunologist.

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José-Alain Sahel

José-Alain Sahel is a French ophthalmologist and scientist.

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Judah Folkman

Moses Judah Folkman (February 24, 1933 – January 14, 2008) was an American biologist and pediatric surgeon best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence.

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Leo Sachs

Leo Sachs (Hebrew: ליאו זקס; &lrm; 14 October 1924 – 12 December 2013) was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher.

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Lewis C. Cantley

Lewis C. Cantley (born February 20, 1949) is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism.

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List of medicine awards

This list of medicine awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to medicine, the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Wolf Prize in Medicine and list of medicine awards are medicine awards.

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Lynne E. Maquat

Lynne Elizabeth Maquat is an American biochemist and molecular biologist whose research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of human disease.

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Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA." He had worked at Rockefeller University "for more than 60 years." 1994 marked 50 years since this work's release.

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Mario Capecchi

Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice.

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Mary F. Lyon

Mary Frances Lyon (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.

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Meir Wilchek

Meir Wilchek (Hebrew: מאיר אשר וילצ'ק, born 17 October 1935) is an Israeli biochemist.

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Michael Berridge

Sir Michael John Berridge (22 October 1938 - 13 February 2020) was a British physiologist and biochemist.

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Michael Sela

Michael Sela (מיכאל סלע; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin.

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Nahum Sonenberg

Nahum Sonenberg, (נחום סוננברג; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine are medicine awards.

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Oleh Hornykiewicz

Oleh Hornykiewicz (17 November 1926 – 26 May 2020) was an Austrian biochemist.

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Oliver Smithies

Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist.

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Osamu Hayaishi

, was a Japanese biochemist, physiologist, and military physician.

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Pedro Cuatrecasas

Pedro Cuatrecasas (born 27 September 1936) is an American biochemist and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology & Medicine at the University of California San Diego.

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Philippa Marrack

Philippa "Pippa" Marrack, FRS (born 28 June 1945) is an English immunologist and academic, based in the United States, best known for her research and discoveries pertaining to T cells.

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Ralph L. Brinster

Ralph Lawrence Brinster (born March 10, 1932) is an American geneticist, National Medal of Science laureate, and Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

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Robert Weinberg (biologist)

Robert Allan Weinberg (born November 11, 1942) is a biologist, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT, and American Cancer Society Research Professor.

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Roger Wolcott Sperry

Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with split-brain research.

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Roger Y. Tsien

Roger Yonchien Tsien (pronounced, "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist.

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Ronald M. Evans

Ronald Mark Evans (born April 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Biologist, Professor and Head of the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory, and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

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Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch (born on April 22, 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

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Ruth Arnon

Ruth Arnon (Hebrew: רות ארנון, born in Tel Aviv on June 1, 1933) is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Seymour Benzer

Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.

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Shinya Yamanaka

is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate.

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Solomon H. Snyder

Solomon Halbert Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist who has made wide-ranging contributions to neuropharmacology and neurochemistry.

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Stanley B. Prusiner

Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist.

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Stanley Norman Cohen

Stanley Norman Cohen (born February 17, 1935) is an American geneticist and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Tony Pawson (biochemist)

Anthony James Pawson (18 October 1952 – 7 August 2013) was a British-born Canadian scientist.

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Victor Ambros

Victor R. Ambros (born 1953, Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA).

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Wolf Foundation

The Wolf Foundation is a private not-for-profit organization in Israel established in 1975 by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born Jewish Cuban inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Foundation are Wolf Prizes.

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Wolf Prize

The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people... Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Prize are 1978 establishments in Israel, awards established in 1978 and Wolf Prizes.

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Wolf Prize in Agriculture

The Wolf Prize in Agriculture is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Prize in Agriculture are 1978 establishments in Israel, awards established in 1978, Israeli science and technology awards and Wolf Prizes.

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Wolf Prize in Arts

The Wolf Prize in Arts is awarded annually by the not-for-profit Wolf Foundation in Israel. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Prize in Arts are Wolf Prizes.

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Wolf Prize in Chemistry

The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Prize in Chemistry are 1978 establishments in Israel, awards established in 1978, Israeli science and technology awards and Wolf Prizes.

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Wolf Prize in Mathematics

The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Prize in Mathematics are 1978 establishments in Israel, awards established in 1978, Israeli science and technology awards and Wolf Prizes.

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Wolf Prize in Physics

The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. Wolf Prize in Medicine and Wolf Prize in Physics are 1978 establishments in Israel, awards established in 1978, Israeli science and technology awards and Wolf Prizes.

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Yasutomi Nishizuka

was a prominent Japanese biochemist and made important contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanism of signal transduction across the cell membrane.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Prize_in_Medicine

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1978 establishments in Israel

Israeli science and technology awards

Wolf Prizes

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