The E. Mead Johnson Award, given by the

Society for Pediatric Research A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Socie ...

, was established in 1939 to honor clinical and laboratory research achievements in

pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

. The awards are funded by Mead Johnson Nutritionals, a subsidiary of

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and are named after

Edward Mead Johnson Edward Mead Johnson (April 23, 1852 – March 20, 1934) was an American businessman and one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson. In 1886, Edward Mead Johnson abandoned a career in law and joined his two brothers Robert Wood Johnson I, and ...

, a co-founder of the originating company

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. Two researchers sometimes share a prize.

Award recipients

Source: * 1939

Frederic A. Gibbs Frederic Andrews Gibbs (1903–1992) was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Gibbs graduated from Yale and Johns Hopkins in 1929. He was offered a fello ...

Dorothy Hansine Andersen Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 – March 3, 1963) was an American physician, pediatrician, and pathologist who was the first person to identify cystic fibrosis, the first to describe the disease, and the one to name it. in 1939, she was a ...

* 1940 Robert E. Gross, Lee E. Farr * 1941

René J. Dubos René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminine ...

, Albert Sabin * 1942

David Bodian David Bodian (15 May 1910 – 18 September 1992) was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research. In the early 1940s he helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of ...

and

Howard A. Howe Howard Atkinson Howe (July 29, 1901 – December 22, 1976) was an American physician, whose work at the Johns Hopkins medical institutions helped to lay the groundwork for the Salk polio vaccine. Early years and education A native of Wabash, Indi ...

, Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison * 1943 Hattie E. Alexander, Philip Levine * 1944 Fuller Albright, Josef Warkany * 1945 ''no awards given'' * 1946 Horace L. Hodes, Paul A. Harper * 1947

Helen B. Taussig Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the l ...

Louis K. Diamond Louis Klein Diamond ( yi, לאָויס קלעין דיאַמאָנד; May 11, 1902 – June 14, 1999) was an American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology." Early life and career Diamond was born in Chişinău, Bessarabia ...

* 1948

Wolf W. Zuelzer Wolf William Zuelzer (May 24, 1909 – March 20, 1987) was a German-American pediatric pathologist. He worked at the Children's Hospital of Michigan for 35 years, where he oversaw a large amount of pediatric research, particularly in the field of ...

, Benjamin M. Spock * 1949 Nathan B. Talbot, Henry L. Barnett * 1950 Charles D. May and

Harry Shwachman Harry may refer to: TV shows * ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...

Gertrude Henle Werner Henle (August 27, 1910 – July 6, 1987) and Gertrude Henle (April 3, 1912 – September 1, 2006) were a husband and wife team of virologists known for their work in flu vaccines and viral diagnostics. Together they authored more than 200 pa ...

and

Werner Henle Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Rai ...

* 1951 William M. Wallace, Victor A. Najjar * 1952

Seymour S. Cohen Seymour Stanley Cohen (April 30, 1917-December 30, 2018) was an American biochemist. Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York in April 1917. He attended City College of New York and his PhD came from Columbia University under the supervision of Erwi ...

, Orvar Swenson and Edward B.D. Neuhauser * 1953

Frederick C. Robbins Frederick Chapman Robbins (August 25, 1916 – August 4, 2003) was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School. He received the Nobel Prize in ...

and

Thomas H. Weller Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis ...

, Margaret H. Smith * 1954 Robert E. Cooke, Vincent C. Kelley * 1955

Robert A. Good Robert Alan Good NAM, NAS, AAAS (May 21, 1922 – June 13, 2003) was an American physician who performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant between persons who were not identical twins. He is regarded as a founder of modern immu ...

* 1956 David Gitlin,

Arnall Patz Arnall Patz (June 14, 1920 – March 11, 2010) was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 p ...

* 1957 Alfred M. Bongiovanni and Walter R. Eberlein,

Albert Dorfman Albert Dorfman (1916–1982) was an American biochemical geneticist, notable for discovery of the cause of Hurler's syndrome. He was also noted for his contributions to vaccine against Streptococcus infections. He also contributed to advances ag ...

* 1958 William A. Silverman, Norman Kretchmer * 1959

C. Henry Kempe C. Henry Kempe (birth name Karl Heinz Kempe; April 6, 1922 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – March 3, 1984 in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii) was an American pediatrician and the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child ...

Barton Childs Barton Childs (February 29, 1916 – February 18, 2010)
was an American

* 1960 Robert A. Aldrich, Irving Schulman * 1961 Lytt Irvine Gardner, Donald E. Pickering * 1962 Park S. Gerald, Robert L. Vernier * 1963 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Richard T. Smith * 1964

Robert M. Chanock Robert Merritt Chanock (July 8, 1924 – July 30, 2010) was an American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent at the National Insti ...

, Abraham M. Rudolph * 1965 David Y.-Y Hsia, L. Stanley James * 1966 William H. Tooley, Robert W. Winters * 1967 Henry Neil Kirkman, Henry M. Meyer and Paul D. Parkman * 1968

Mary Ellen Avery Mary Ellen Avery (May 6, 1927 – December 4, 2011), also known as Mel, was an American pediatrician. In the 1950s, Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in prem ...

Charles R. Scriver Charles Robert Scriver (born November 7, 1930) is a Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist. Scriver made many important contributions to our knowledge of inborn errors of metabolism. He led in establishing a nationwide newborn metabolic ...

* 1969 Frederick C. Battaglia, Gerard B. Odell * 1970 Myron Winick, Joseph A. Bellanti * 1971 Paul G. Quie, Fred S. Rosen * 1972 Chester M. Edelmann, Frank A. Oski * 1973 Henry L. Nadler, James G. White * 1974 Andre J. Nahmias, E. Richard Stiehm * 1975

John B. Robbins John Bennett Robbins (December 1, 1932—November 27, 2019) was a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), best known for his contribution to the development of the vaccine against bacterial meningitis (Haemophilus influenza ...

and David H. Smith, Rawle M. McIntosh * 1976 Haig H. Kazazian, David Lawrence Rimoin * 1977 Arthur J. Ammann, Michael E. Miller * 1978 Samuel A. Latt, Pearay L. Ogra * 1979 Philip L. Ballard, Harvey R. Colten * 1980 R. Michael Blaese, S. Michael Mauer * 1981 Robert J. Desnick, Erwin W. Gelfand * 1982 Larry J. Shapiro, Jerry A. Winkelstein * 1983 Laurence A. Boxer, Samuel E. Lux * 1984 Jan L. Breslow,

John A. Phillips John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

* 1985 Russell W. Chesney, Augustine Joseph D'Ercole * 1986 Raif Salim Geha, Alan H. Jobe * 1987 Donald C. Anderson, Stuart H. Orkin * 1988 Jeffrey A. Whitsett, Barry Wolf * 1989

Steven M. Reppert Steven M. Reppert (born September 4, 1946) is an American neuroscientist known for his contributions to the fields of chronobiology and neuroethology. His research has focused primarily on the physiological, cellular, and molecular basis of circa ...

, Robert H. Yolken * 1990 Gregory A. Grabowski, Arnold W. Strauss * 1991

Louis M. Kunkel Louis Martens Kunkel (born October 13, 1949) is an American geneticist and member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). His father ( Henry G. Kunkel) and grandfather ( Louis O. Kunkel) were also scientists and NAS members. Kunkel came from a ...

Ronald G. Worton Ronald G. Worton (born April 2, 1942) is a Canadian doctor. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Manitoba and a PhD in medical biophysics from the University of Toronto. Worton pursued post-doctoral studies a ...

* 1992 Ann Margaret Arvin,

Francis S. Collins Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is the former director of the National Institutes of Health ( ...

and

Lap-Chee Tsui Lap-Chee Tsui (; born 21 December 1950) is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong. Personal life Tsui was born in Shanghai. He grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong and att ...

* 1993 Edward R.B. McCabe, Alan L. Schwartz * 1994 David A. Williams, David H. Perlmutter * 1995 Margaret K. Hostetter,

Alan M. Krensky Alan Krensky is executive for development at Northwestern Medicine and vice dean for development and alumni relations at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. He was previously senior investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular B ...

* 1996 Perrin C. White,

Huda Y. Zoghbi Huda Yahya Zoghbi (Arabic: هدى الهبري الزغبي ''Hudā al-Hibrī az-Zughbī''; born 1954), born Huda El-Hibri, is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience a ...

* 1997

Donald Y.M. Leung Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Goidelic languages, Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is part ...

, Elaine Tuomanen * 1998 Jonathan D. Gitlin,

James R. Lupski James R. Lupski (born February 22, 1957) is the Cullen Endowed Chair in Molecular Genetics and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Lupski obtained his BA degree from New York University in 1979 and his PhD and ...

, Jeffrey C. Murray * 1999 Steven H. Abman and Chaim M. Roifman * 2000 Mark A. Kay and

Gregg L. Semenza Gregg Leonard Semenza (born July 12, 1956) is a Pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a 2016 recipi ...

* 2001 Alan D. D'Andrea, Steve A.N. Goldstein * 2002

Nancy C. Andrews Nancy C. Andrews NAS (born November 29, 1958) is an American biologist and physician noted for her research on iron homeostasis. Andrews was formerly Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine.Duke University"Harvard Physician-Scientist Name ...

, Markus Grompe * 2003 Gregory S. Barsh, Val C. Sheffield * 2004 Bruce D. Gelb, Friedhelm Hildebrandt * 2005 Elizabeth C. Engle, Terence R. Flotte * 2006 James E. Crowe, David Pellman * 2007 Marc E. Rothenberg, Deepak Srivastava * 2008

Todd R. Golub Todd R. Golub is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and thDirectorand a founding member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvar ...

, Victor Nizet * 2009

George Q. Daley George Quentin Daley is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly the Robert A. Stranahan Profess ...

Brendan Lee Brendan Lee (born 9 September 1987) is a former professional Australian rules football player at the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and most notable for his long career with East Perth in the West Australian Foot ...

* 2010 Jean-Laurent Casanova, Fernando Pedro Polack * 2011

Joel Hirschhorn Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005) was an American songwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Hirsc ...

, Eric Vilain * 2012 Scott A. Armstrong,

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* 2013 William T. Pu, Bradley L. Schlaggar * 2014 Atul Butte, John Vance Williams * 2015 Ophir Klein, Loren D. Walensky * 2016 Kimberly Stegmaier,

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* 2017 Jordan S. Orange * 2018 Helen Su * 2019 Joshua D. Milner * 2021 Sallie Permar * 2022 Vijay G. Sankaran * 2023 Audrey Odom John

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