The Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award is a scientific award given by the

American Association of Blood Banks American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

(AABB) to scientists with "an international reputation in transfusion medicine or cellular therapies" "whose original research resulted in an important contribution to the body of scientific knowledge". Recipients give a lecture at the AABB Annual Meeting and receive a $7,500 honorarium. The prize was initiated in 1954 to honor

Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner (; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-born American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from ...

, whose research laid the foundation for modern

blood transfusion Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood. Early transfusions used whole blood, but mo ...

therapy.

Recipients

* 1954

Reuben Ottenberg Reuben Ottenberg (1882 in New York City – 1959) was an American physician and haematologist, who served Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City with distinction for 50 years. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1902 and his M.D. degr ...

* 1955

Richard Lewisohn Richard Lewisohn (July 12, 1875 in Hamburg – August 11, 1961 in New York) was a German-American surgeon. At Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, he developed procedures that made blood transfusion practical. Life and career Lewisohn was born t ...

* 1956 Philip Levine, Alexander Solomon Wiener * 1957 Ruth Sanger,

Robert Russell Race Robert Russell Race CBE FRS FRCP FRCPath MRCS (28 November 1907 – 15 April 1984) was a British medical doctor and human geneticist. He was Director of the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, of the Lister Institute of Prevent ...

* 1958

Oswald Hope Robertson Oswald Hope Robertson (2 June 1886 – 23 March 1966) was an English-born medical scientist who pioneered the idea of blood banks in the "blood depots" he established in 1917 during service in France with the US Army Medical Corps. __TOC__ Lif ...

Francis Peyton Rous Francis Peyton Rous () (October 5, 1879 – February 16, 1970) was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller University known for his works in oncoviruses, blood transfusion and physiology of digestion. A medical graduate from the Johns Hopki ...

, J. R. Turner * 1959

Ernest Witebsky Ernst Witebsky, also Ernest Witebsky (3 September 1901 in Frankfurt am Main – 7 December 1969) was a German-American immunologist. Early life and education Ernst Witebsky was born in Frankfurt am Main. From 1920 to 1926 Witebsky studied medic ...

* 1960 Patrick L. Mollison * 1961 Robert R. A. Coombs * 1962 William C. Boyd * 1963 Fred H. Allen Jr., Louis K. Diamond * 1964 J. J. van Loghem * 1965 Ruggero Ceppellini * 1966

Elvin A. Kabat Elvin Abraham Kabat (September 1, 1914 – June 16, 2000) was an American biomedical scientist and one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry. Kabat was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1 ...

* 1967 Walter Morgan, Winifred Watkins * 1968 Rodney R. Porter * 1969 Vincent J. Freda, John G. Gorman, William Pollack * 1970

Jean Dausset Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell fo ...

* 1971 Bruce Chown, Marion Lewis * 1972 Richard E. Rosenfield * 1973 Arthur E. Mourant * 1974 Manfred M. Mayer, Hans J. Müller-Eberhard * 1975

Baruch S. Blumberg Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925 April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepat ...

, Alfred M. Prince * 1976 Marie Cutbush Crookston, Eloise R. Giblett * 1977 Rose Payne, Jon van Rood * 1978 Fred Stratton * 1979 Nevin C. Hughes-Jones, Serafeim P. Masouredis * 1980 Donald M. Marcus, James M. Stavely * 1981 James F. Danielli, S. Jonathan Singer * 1982 Georges J. F. Köhler, César Milstein * 1983 Vincent T. Marchesi * 1984

Oliver Smithies Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist. He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Cape ...

* 1985 Saul Krugman * 1986 Claes F. Högman, Grant R. Bartlett * 1987 E. Donnall Thomas * 1988 Charles P. Salmon * 1989 George W. Bird * 1990

Robert Gallo Robert Charles Gallo (; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome ...

, Luc Montagnier * 1991 Paul I. Terasaki * 1992 Harvey J. Alter,

Daniel W. Bradley Daniel W. Bradley (born 13 July 1941) is an important American virologist who, along with Michael Houghton, Qui-Lim Choo and George Kuo at Chiron Corporation, worked to help isolate the Hepatitis C virus in 1989. He graduated from San José Stat ...

Qui-Lim Choo Qui-Lim Choo is a Singapore-born scientist, who along with Michael Houghton, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, co-discovered and cloned Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of Hepatitis C led ...

, Michael Houghton,

George Kuo George Ching-Hung Kuo is a Taiwanese-born scientist, who along with Michael Houghton, Qui-Lim Choo and Daniel W. Bradley, co-discovered and cloned the hepatitis C virus in 1989. Kuo graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1961 and comple ...

, Lacy Overby * 1993 C. Paul Engelfriet * 1994 Kenneth Brinkhous,

Harold Roberts Harold Roberts may refer to: * Harold W. Roberts Harold William Roberts (October 14, 1895 – October 6, 1918) was a United States Army corporal and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his act ...

Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows '' It Takes a Thief'' (1968–1970), ''Switch'' (1975–1978), and '' Hart to Hart'' (1979� ...

, Robert Langdell * 1995 W. Laurence Marsh * 1996 Eugene Goldwasser * 1997 Wendell F. Rosse * 1998 Richard H. Aster,

Scott Murphy Matthew Scott Murphy (born January 26, 1970) is an American entrepreneur and politician. He represented parts of New York state's Capital District (excluding the city of Albany) in the United States House of Representatives for a portion of one ...

, Sherrill J. Slichter * 1999 Kary B. Mullis * 2000 Michael E. DeBakey * 2001 John Bowman * 2002 Hal E. Broxmeyer * 2003

Victor A. McKusick Victor Almon McKusick (October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008) was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its ...

* 2004 Tibor Greenwalt * 2005

Peter Agre Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director o ...

* 2006

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 ...

* 2007 Peter Issitt * 2008 Ernest Beutler * 2009 Curt I. Civin * 2010 Steven A. Rosenberg * 2011

David Weatherall Sir David John Weatherall, (9 March 1933 – 8 December 2018) was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. Early life and education David Weatherall was born in Liverpool.Geoff Wa ...

Yuet Wai Kan Yuet Wai Kan (; born June 11, 1936), is a Chinese-American geneticist and hematologist. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a former president ...

* 2012 Kenneth Kaushansky * 2013 Barry S. Coller * 2014 Carl June * 2015 Nancy C. Andrews * 2016 Stuart Orkin * 2017

Irving Weissman Irving Lerner "Irv" Weissman (born Great Falls, Montana, October 21, 1939) is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medic ...

* 2018 David A. Williams * 2019 David Anstee, Jean-Pierre Cartron, Colvin Redman, Fumiichiro Yamamoto

References

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