The Edwin Grant Conklin Medal was inaugurated in 1995 by the

Society for Developmental Biology The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), originally the Society for the Study of Development and Growth, is a professional society for scientists and professionals around the world whose research is focused on the study of the developmental b ...

in honor of the biologist

Edwin Conklin Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24, 1863 – November 20, 1952) was an American biologist and zoologist. Life He was born in Waldo, Ohio, the son of A. V. Conklin and Maria Hull. He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins Un ...

. It is awarded annually to recognise a member of the society who has carried out distinguished and sustained research in developmental biology. The recipient delivers a feature lecture at the annual society meeting and is presented with a commemorative plaque.

List of recipients

The following have won the award: * 1995 – John Phillip Trinkaus (Yale University) * 1996 – John W. Saunders Jr. (State University of New York at Albany) * 1997 – Elizabeth D. Hay (Harvard Medical School) * 1998 – Thomas C. Kaufman (Indiana University) * 1999 –

Clement Markert Clement Lawrence Markert (April 11, 1917 – October 1, 1999) was an American biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences ...

(Yale University) * 2000 – Charles B. Kimmel (University of Oregon) * 2001 – John B. Gurdon (University of Cambridge) * 2002 –

Gail R. Martin Gail Roberta Martin (née Zuckman, born 1944) is an American biologist. She is professor emerita in the Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco. She is known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cell ...

(University of California, San Francisco) * 2003 – Allan C. Spradling (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland) * 2004 – Matthew Scott (Stanford University) * 2005 – Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (Honoraire at the Collège de France and Secrétaire Perpétuelle of the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France) * 2006 – Trudi Schupbach (Princeton University) * 2007 –

Janet Rossant Janet Rossant, (born 13 July 1950) is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is a world renowned leader in developmental biology. Her current research int ...

(Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) * 2008 – Elizabeth J. Robertson (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) * 2009 – David Mark Kingsley (Stanford University) * 2010 –

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(Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Japan) * 2011 –

Ruth Lehmann Ruth Lehmann is a developmental and cell biologist. She is the Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, succeeding David Page. She previously was affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine, where she was the D ...

(Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) * 2012 –

Clifford Tabin Clifford James Tabin (born 1954) is chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Education Tabin was educated at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a BS in physics in 1976. He went on to graduate school at Mas ...

(Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts) * 2013 – Marianne Bronner (California Institute of Technology) * 2014 –

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(University of California, Berkeley) * 2015 – Michael S. Levine (University of California, Berkeley / Lewis Sigler Institute, Princeton) * 2016 - Kathryn V. Anderson (Sloan Kettering Institute) * 2017 - Philippe M. Soriano (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) * 2018 -

Robb Krumlauf Robb Krumlauf is an American developmental biologist. He is best known for researching the Hox family of transcription factors. He is most interested in understanding the role of the Hox genes in the hindbrain and their role in areas of animal de ...

(Stowers Institute for Medical Research) * 2019 - Eric N. Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) * 2020 -

Claude Desplan Claude Desplan, a biologist originally trained in France, has been a Silver Professor in New York University’s Department of Biology since 1999. His research centers on understanding the development and functioning of the visual system that underl ...

(New York University)

References

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List of recipients

See also

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