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Eli Lilly Eli Lilly (July 8, 1838 – June 6, 1898) was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and r ...

Award in Biological Chemistry was established in 1934. Consisting of a bronze medal and honorarium, its purpose is to stimulate fundamental research in biological chemistry by scientists not over thirty-eight years of age. The Award is administered by the Division of Biological Chemistry of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

Recipients

Past recipients of the Lilly Award: *1935 – Willard Myron Allen *1937 – *1938 – *1939 – George Wald *1940 – *1941 – David Rittenberg *1942 – Earl A. Evans, Jr. *1943 – Herbert E. Carter *1944 –

Joseph S. Fruton Joseph Stewart Fruton (May 14, 1912 – July 29, 2007), born Joseph Fruchtgarten, was a Polish-American biochemist and historian of science. His most significant scientific work involved synthetic peptides and their interactions with proteases; ...

*1945 – *1946 – John D. Ferry *1947 – *1948 –

Dilworth Wayne Woolley Dilworth Wayne Woolley (July 20, 1914 – July 23, 1966) was a Canadian-born American biochemist, who did important work on vitamin deficiency, and was one of the first to study the role of serotonin in brain chemistry. He was nominated for a Nob ...

*1949 – *1950 – *1951 – John M. Buchanan *1952 – *1953 – Nathan O. Kaplan *1954 – Harvey A. Itano *1955 – William F. Neuman *1956 – Robert A. Alberty *1957 – Harold A. Scheraga *1958 – Lester J. Reed *1959 –

Paul Berg Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their con ...

*1960 –

James D. Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and ...

*1961 – *1962 – Jerard Hurwitz *1963 – William P. Jencks *1964 – Bruce N. Ames *1965 – Gerald M. Edelman *1966 – Phillips W. Robbins *1967 – Gordon G. Hammes *1968 –

Charles C. Richardson Charles Clifton Richardson (born May 7, 1935) is an American biochemist and professor at Harvard University. Richardson received his undergraduate education at Duke University, where he majored in medicine. He received his M.D. at Duke Medical ...

*1969 – Mario R. Capecchi *1970 –

Lubert Stryer Lubert Stryer (born March 2, 1938, in Tianjin, China) is the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light ...

*1971 – *1972 – Bruce M. Alberts *1973 – *1974 –

James Dahlberg James Dahlberg is an emeritus professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on the biology of RNA. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1996. Education Dahlberg e ...

*1975 –

Mark Ptashne Mark Ptashne (born June 5, 1940, in Chicago) is a molecular biologist. He is the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Ptashne grew up in Chicago. He earned his undergraduate degree at Re ...

*1976 –

Joan A. Steitz Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is known for her discoveries involving RNA, inc ...

*1977 –

Robert G. Roeder Robert G. Roeder (born June 3, 1942, in Boonville, Indiana, United States) is an American biochemist. He is known as a pioneer scientist in eukaryotic transcription. He discovered three distinct nuclear RNA polymerases in 1969 and characterize ...

*1978 –

Charles R. Cantor Charles R. Cantor (born 26 August 1942) is an American molecular genetics, molecular geneticist who, in conjunction with David Schwartz, developed pulse field gel electrophoresis for very large DNA molecules. Cantor's three-volume book, ''Biophys ...

*1979 –

Christopher T. Walsh Christopher T. Walsh NAS IoM AAA&S AAM is a Hamilton Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on enzymes and enzyme inhibition, and most recently he is focused on the problem of an ...

*1980 –

Phillip A. Sharp Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in euka ...

*1981 –

Roger D. Kornberg Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which ...

*1982 –

Harold M. Weintraub Harold M. "Hal" Weintraub was an American scientist who lived from 1945 until his death in 1995 from an aggressive brain tumor. Only 49 years old, Weintraub left behind a legacy of research. Early life and education Born on June 2, 1945, in ...

*1983 –

Richard Axel Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won hi ...

*1984 – David V. Goeddel *1985 – Gerald M. Rubin *1986 – James E. Rothman *1987 –

Jacqueline K. Barton Jacqueline K. Barton (born May 7, 1952 New York City, NY), is an American chemist. She worked as a Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College (1980–82), and at Columbia University (1983–89) before joining the California Institute of Technology. ...

*1988 –

Peter Walter Peter Walter (born December 5, 1954) is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist and is Director of the Bay Area Institute of Science at Altos Labs, Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He was a Howard H ...

*1989 – *1990 – George L. McLendon *1991 –

Peter G. Schultz Peter G. Schultz (born June 23, 1956) is an American chemist. He is the CEO and Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, the founder and former director of GNF, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedi ...

*1992 – William DeGrado *1993 – Stuart L. Schreiber *1994 – Peter S. Kim *1995 – Jeremy Berg *1996 – Gregory L. Verdine *1997 –

Alanna Schepartz Alanna Schepartz (born January 9, 1962) is an American professor and scientist. She is currently the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. She was formerly the Sterling Professor of Chemistry ...

*1998 –

John Kuriyan John Kuriyan is the Dean of Basic Sciences and a Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was formerly the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the departments of Molecular and Cell Bi ...

*1999 – Chaitan Khosla *2000 – Xiaodong Wang *2001 –

Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a ...

*2002 – Kevan M. Shokat *2003 – Andreas Matouschek *2004 –

Benjamin Cravatt III Benjamin Franklin Cravatt III is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Considered a co-inventor of activity based proteomics and a substantial contributor to research on the endocann ...

*2005 – *2006 – Linda Hsieh-Wilson *2007 – Anna K. Mapp *2008 – *2009 – Scott K. Silverman *2010 – Alice Y. Ting *2011 –

Nathanael Gray Nathanael S. Gray is a Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University and director of cancer therapeutics programme at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously he was a Nancy Lurie Marks Professor ...

*2012 – Christopher J. Chang *2013 – *2014 – *2015 – *2016 – Elizabeth Nolan *2017 – Howard C. Hang *2018 – Bradley L. Pentelute *2019 – *2020 – Yimon Aye *2021 – Jordan L. Meier *2022 – Lingyin Li *2023 – Polly Fordyce

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