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Awards & Honors
Svetlana Mojsov wins a 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Our scientists are remarkably productive and empowered to perform at their best. That’s why we have an unparalleled concentration of researchers and traineesÌýrecognized with top awards—including the world’s most prestigious bioscienceÌýprizes.

Recent Awards & Honors

HHMI Investigator
Victora, who studies how antibodies are generated in response to infection and immunization, is among 26 scientists nationwide to receive this designation.
National Academy of Sciences
Paul Bieniasz
Bieniasz’s research on the viruses that cause HIV and COVID has helped the scientific community respond to two of the biggest public health threats of our time.
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Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists
Arnaud Vanden Broeck and Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
António Champalimaud Vision Award
Winrich Freiwald
Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science
Svetlana Mojsov
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research
Svetlana Mojsov
Searle Scholar
Jiankun Lyu
Warren Triennial Prize
Svetlana Mojsov
CHICA AND HEINZ SCHALLER FOUNDATION AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENTS IN VIROLOGY
Paul Bieniasz
PEZCOLLER FOUNDATION-AACR INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Titia de Lange
Tri-I Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators
Naama Aviram, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Medal
Elaine Fuchs
Academia Europaea
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Michelson Prize
Dennis Schaefer-Babajew
Maria I. New International Prize
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Max Delbruck Prize
Eric D. Siggia

Awards given by Â鶹ÊÓƵ×÷Æ·

Pearl Meister Greengard Award

The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is an international award recognizing outstanding women in biomedical research.

Svetlana Mojsov is the 2024 recipient of the PMG Prize. Her groundbreaking discovery of GLP-1 and its role as a glucose-dependent inducer of insulin secretion led to the development of new medicines for type 2 diabetes mellitus, and more recently as potent weight-loss drugs that prevent heart attacks.

Lewis Thomas Prize

The Lewis Thomas Prize is an international award for writing about science that honors the rare individuals who bridge the worlds of science and the humanities.

The 2024 awardee, , is a theoretical physicist who is honored for his book, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness.” His writings have delighted and informed millions of people in 45 languages, spurring readers to think deeply about topics in the scientific arena and beyond.