Gruber Prize in Genetics

The Gruber Prize in Genetics is one of five international awards made by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Genetics Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is $500,000.

The Genetics Prize honors leading scientists for distinguished contributions in any realm of genetics research. The Foundation’s other international prizes are in Cosmology, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women’s Rights.

Recipients

 * 2013 Svante Pääbo, PhD
 * 2012 Douglas C. Wallace, PhD
 * 2011 Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Stanford University
 * 2010 Gerald Fink, PhD, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor at MIT
 * 2009 Janet Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
 * 2008 Allan C. Spradling, PhD, of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics
 * 2007 Maynard Olson of the University of Washington, a bioinformatics specialist
 * 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist specializing in telomeres
 * 2005 Robert Hugh Waterston
 * 2004 Mary Claire King
 * 2003 David Botstein
 * 2002 H. Robert Horvitz
 * 2001 Rudolf Jaenisch