Richard Lounsbery Award

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The Richard Lounsbery Award is given to American and French scientists, 45 years or younger, in recognition of "extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine."

The Award alternates between French and American scientists, and is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in alternating years to a scientist from the other country. The award is selected by a seven-member jury representing both the French and the US Academies. The recipient receives a US$70,000 prize, funding to visit a lab or research institution in the awarding country, and an invitation to give the Lounsbery Lecture in the awarding country.

The Lounsbery Award was established in 1979 by Vera Lounsbery in memory of her husband, Richard Lounsbery, and is funded by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Richard and Vera met in Paris after World War I, and the couple divided their time between Paris and New York.

Award Recipients

For pioneering the technology called optogenetics in which insertion of a single bacterial protein into a neuron allows exquisite control of the neuron with light.

  • Olivier Pourquié (2012)

For his work in embryonic patterning in vertebrates and particularly in the genetic and developmental mechanisms that control segmentation.

  • Bonnie L. Bassler(2011)

For her pioneering discoveries of the universal use of chemical communication among bacteria and the elucidation of structural and regulatory mechanisms controlling bacterial assemblies.

  • Gérard Karsenty (2010)

For his work on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the formation and the remodeling of bone.

  • Cornelia I. Bargmann (2009)

For her extraordinarily inventive and successful use of molecular and classical genetics to probe the individual nerve cell basis of behavior in C. elegans.

  • Jean-Laurent Casanova (2008)

For his contributions to the understanding the genetic basis of the predisposition to viral and bacterial diseases of childhood, which have important clinical implications for the diagnostic and management of infectious diseases.

For his pioneering biochemical studies on apoptosis, which have elucidated a molecular pathway leading into and out of the mitochondrion and to the nucleus.

For her major contributions in the perception and behavioral translation of pheromones in mammals.

For his critical role in revealing the structural mechanisms underlying processivity in DNA replication and the regulation of tyrosine kinases and their interacting target proteins.

  • Brigitte Kieffer (2004)

For her pioneering work on the molecular neurobiology of opioid-controlled behaviors, the results of which have very important implications for the treatment of pain, drug abuse, and emotional disorders.

For her pioneering biochemical and genetic studies of telomerase, the enzyme that maintains the ends of chromosomes in eukaryotic cells.

  • Denis Le Bihan (2002)

For his work on the invention and development of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of brain diffusion and perfusion. The method he developed permits in vivo mapping of nerve fiber bundles and has multiple applications in both medical pathology and cognitive science fields.

For her fundamental insights into structure and function of cytoskeletal proteins and the relation of these proteins to human genetic diseases.

For his contribution to the discovery of the molecular mechanisms implicated in the replication and repair of DNA, in particular, the discovery of a key enzyme of the DNA repair mechanism.

  • Elliot M. Meyerowitz (1999)

For his pioneering contributions to the molecular genetics of plant architecture, which have practical implications for agriculture.

For her fundamental discoveries in microbiology dealing with mechanisms of bacterial entry and intracellular host motility.

  • James E. Rothman (1997)

For his dissection of the biochemical mechanisms by which proteins are transferred from one cellular compartment to another and to the outside world. These mechanisms are important in neurotransmission, tissue biogenesis, and hormonal secretion.

  • Daniel Louvard and Jacques Pouysségur (1996)

For their contributions to the study of the regulation of cell division and differentiation.

For showing how cells and tissues differentiate during vertebrate development through studies on localized mRNAs in eggs and the genes that induce mesoderm and neural tissue.

  • Jean Louis Mandel (1994)

For his work in human genetics and in particular for his discovery of the mutation of fragile X. This new type of mutation has now been found at the origin of the diseases.

For their distinct and exciting discoveries about the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative and malignant diseases. This award is given as a celebration of the power of modern molecular medicine.

  • Philippe Ascher and Henri Korn (1992)

For their discoveries of the mechanisms of synaptic transmission. Philippe Asher furthered knowledge regarding the properties of glutamate receptors which play an important role in trials, and Henri Korn brought to light the elementary liberation of neurotransmitter in quanta form in the central nervous system of vertebrates.

  • Marc W. Kirschner (1991)

For elucidating key steps in the cell cycle, chromosome movement, cell cycle timing, nucleus breakdown and reformation, and microtubule control of cell polarity and mitosis.

  • Harold Weintraub (1991)

For elucidating a molecular mechanism by which a single regulatory gene can lead to a program of cell differentiation.

  • Jean Rosa (1990)

For his contributions, which have opened a new road in the control of oxygen transport in the blood and the treatment of the first worldwide genetic plague, drepanocytosis.

For his discoveries elucidating gene structure in animal cells.

  • François Cuzin (1988)

For his original contributions in the elucidation of the mechanisms involved in malignant cell transformation, in particular, demonstration of the necessary contribution of two oncogenes.

For their discoveries regarding the proteins and mechanisms that mediate cellular responses to the binding of ligands to cell surface receptors.

  • André Capron and Jacques Glowinski (1986)

For their fundamental work, which has contributed to the treatment of parasitic and neurological diseases.

  • Martin Gellert and Thomas Maniatis (1985)

For their seminal contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of DNA, which were essential and fundamental to the development of recombinant DNA techniques.

  • Maxime Schwartz (1984)

For his genetic and biochemical analysis of the maltose system of E.Coli, which paved the way for the solution of a series of fundamental problems in molecular biology.

For his work in uncovering the molecular interactions that control the traffic of newly synthesized proteins in eukaryotic cells, for his incisive experiments, and for the beauty of the findings by which he established these interactions.

For their work on fundamental structures of genetic material and of the nervous system.

For his series of notable contributions in molecular genetics, which help to explain the means by which genetic information is organized and used to direct the synthesis of specific cell products.

For his work on the physiology of the kidney.

For their work in cholesterol biosynthesis.

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