George W. Beadle Award

George W. Beadle Award
George W. Beadle (1903–1989)
Awarded for	outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers
Date	1999 (1999)
Country	United States
Presented by	Genetics Society of America
Website	www.genetics-gsa.org/awards/beadleaward.shtml

The George W. Beadle Award is a prestigious scientific prize given by the Genetics Society of America to individuals who have made “outstanding contributions” to Genetics. The Award was established in 1999 and named in honor of George Wells Beadle,^[1] who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958.

Laureates

Laureates of the Medal have included the following distinguished scientists:

• Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling (2003)^[2]
• André Goffeau and Robert K. Mortimer (2002)^[3]
• Gerald Fink (2001)^[4]
• John Sulston and Robert Waterston (2000)^[5]
• Michael Ashburner (1999)^[6]
• 2004 Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
• 2005 Thomas C. Kaufman, Indiana University
• 2006 Fred Sherman, University of Rochester
• 2007 Robert K. Herman, University of Minnesota
• 2008 Mark Johnston, Washington University School of Medicine
• 2009 Jay C. Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School
• 2010 William M. Gelbart, Harvard University
• 2011 Joseph R. Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• 2012 Therese Markow, University of California, San Diego
• 2013 R. Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• 2014 Hugo J. Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine
• 2015 John H. Postlethwait, University of Oregon
• 2016 Susan E. Celniker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 2017 Susan A. Gerbi, Brown University

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