High-Level Award Winners
Former winners of the Dickson Prize in Medicine are a who’s-who of biomedical science—researchers whose discoveries have reshaped how we understand and treat disease. The prize has an impressive track record of identifying breakthrough thinkers. Many recipients also win Nobel Prizes, Lasker Awards and other top honors. Taken together, Dickson Prize laureates trace the frontier of medicine itself, from the birth of molecular biology to CRISPR and modern cell engineering.
Nobel Prize
current as of 6/4/26
Carolyn Bertozzi
2022 Dickson Prize
2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jennifer Doudna
2016 Dickson Prize
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Victor R. Ambros
2009 Dickson Prize
2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Randy W. Schekman
2008 Dickson Prize
2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Carol W. Greider
2007 Dickson Prize
2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Roger D. Kornberg
2006 Dickson Prize
2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2000 Dickson Prize
2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Stanley B. Prusiner
1993 Dickson Prize
1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Phillip A. Sharp
1991 Dickson Prize
1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
J. Michael Bishop
1986 Dickson Prize
1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Eric R. Kandel
1983 Dickson Prize
2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel
1980 Dickson Prize
1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Paul Greengard
1978 Dickson Prize
2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Roger Guillemin
1977 Dickson Prize
1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Rosalyn S. Yalow
1972 Dickson Prize
1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
1971 Dickson Prize
1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Lasker Awards
current as of 6/4/26
Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
1971 Dickson Prize
1970 Basic Medical Research Award
Rosalyn S. Yalow
1972 Dickson Prize
1976 Basic Medical Research Award
John H. Gibbon Jr.
1973 Dickson Prize
1968 Clinical Medical Research Award
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
1975 Dickson Prize
1982 Clinical Medical Research Award
Frank J. Dixon
1976 Dickson Prize
1975 Basic Medical Research Award
Roger Guillemin
1977 Dickson Prize
1975 Basic Medical Research Award
Philip Leder
1981 Dickson Prize
1987 Basic Medical Research Award
Eric R. Kandel
1983 Dickson Prize
1983 Basic Medical Research Award
Solomon H. Snyder
1984 Dickson Prize
1978 Basic Medical Research Award
Robert C. Gallo
1985 Dickson Prize
1982 Basic Medical Research Award; 1986 Clinical Medical Research Award
J. Michael Bishop
1986 Dickson Prize
1982 Basic Medical Research Award
Leroy E. Hood
1988 Dickson Prize
2017 Basic Medical Research Award
Phillip A. Sharp
1991 Dickson Prize
1988 Basic Medical Research Award
Stanley B. Prusiner
1993 Dickson Prize
1994 Basic Medical Research Award
Ronald M. Evans
1995 Dickson Prize
2004 Basic Medical Research Award
James E. Darnell Jr.
1999 Dickson Prize
2002 Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2000 Dickson Prize
2006 Basic Medical Research Award
Robert G. Roeder
2001 Dickson Prize
2003 Basic Medical Research Award
Carol W. Greider
2007 Dickson Prize
2006 Basic Medical Research Award
Randy W. Schekman
2008 Dickson Prize
2002 Basic Medical Research Award
Victor R. Ambros
2009 Dickson Prize
2008 Basic Medical Research Award
Brian J. Druker
2012 Dickson Prize
2009 Clinical Medical Research Award
Stephen J. Elledge
2010 Dickson Prize
2015 Basic Medical Research Award
Karl Deisseroth
2015 Dickson Prize
2021 Basic Medical Research Award
Dickson Prize in Medicine Winners
2020
2010
2000
2000 Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD
1999 James E. Darnell Jr., MD
1998 Richard D. Klausner, MD
1997 Edward E. Harlow Jr., PhD,
and Eric S. Lander, PhD
1996 Philippa Marrack, PhD
1995 Ronald M. Evans, PhD
1994 Bert Vogelstein, MD
1993 Stanley B. Prusiner, MD
1992 Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
1991 Phillip A. Sharp, PhD
1990
1990 Ernst Knobil, PhD
1989 Bernard Moss, MD, PhD
1988 Leroy E. Hood, MD, PhD
1987 Elvin A. Kabat, PhD
1986 J. Michael Bishop, MD
1985 Robert C. Gallo, MD
1984 Solomon H. Snyder, MD
1983 Eric R. Kandel, MD
1982 Francis H. Ruddle, PhD
1981 Philip Leder, MD
1980
1980 David H. Hubel, MD,
and Torsten N. Wiesel, MD
1979 Bert W. O’Malley, MD
1978 Paul Greengard, PhD
1977 Roger Guillemin, MD, PhD
1976 Frank J. Dixon, MD
1975 Elizabeth F. Neufeld, PhD
1974 Stephen W. Kuffler, MD
1973 John H. Gibbon Jr., MD
1972 Solomon A. Berson, MD,
and Rosalyn S. Yalow, PhD
1971 Earl W. Sutherland Jr., MD