The Peter Gruber Foundation established and awarded its first Genetics Prize during the year 2001. A year of monumental accomplishment in genetics research, with the successful sequencing of the human genome, was a particularly auspicious time to launch the world's first major international prize devoted specifically to achievements in the realm of genetics research.

GENETICS 2006 PRIZE RECIPIENT

Elizabeth Blackburn discovered the unique structure and mechanism of replication of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes, that play a fundamental role in normal development, and in carcinogenesis.

GENETICS 2005 PRIZE RECIPIENT Robert H. Waterston is a pioneer in the field of genomics and an advocate for the free and rapid release of genomic information.

GENETICS 2004 PRIZE RECIPIENT Mary Claire King proved the existence of the first gene for hereditary breast cancer and has long promoted the application of genetics to benefit humanity.

GENETICS 2003 PRIZE RECIPIENT

David Botstein is an innovative scientist and cell biologist whose lifetime of research has centered on genetics and the use of genetic methods to understand biological functions.

 

 

 

GENETICS 2002 PRIZE RECIPIENT

H. Robert Horvitz is a neurobiologist, developmental biologist, and geneticist who led the way in discovering how specific genes cause the programmed death of cells.