{{Short description|Developmental biology award}} The '''Edwin Grant Conklin Medal''' was inaugurated in 1995 by the [[Society for Developmental Biology]] in honor of the biologist [[Edwin Conklin]]. 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.<ref name = "EGC medal">{{cite web |url = http://www.sdbonline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=8 |title = Edwin Grant Conklin Medal |publisher = [[Society for Developmental Biology]] |access-date = 2008-01-22 |archive-date = 2012-04-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120414092201/http://www.sdbonline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=8 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
==List of recipients== The following have won the award:<ref name = "EGC medal"/>
* 1995 – [[John Phillip Trinkaus]] (Yale University) * 1996 – [[John W. Saunders Jr.]] (State University of New York at Albany) * 1997 – [[Betty Hay|Elizabeth D. Hay]] (Harvard Medical School) * 1998 – [[Thomas C. Kaufman]] (Indiana University) * 1999 – [[Clement Markert]] (Yale University) * 2000 – [[Charles B. Kimmel]] (University of Oregon) * 2001 – [[John Gurdon|John B. Gurdon]] (University of Cambridge) * 2002 – [[Gail R. Martin]] (University of California, San Francisco) * 2003 – [[Allan C. Spradling]] (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland) * 2004 – [[Matthew Scott (biologist)|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]] (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) * 2008 – [[Elizabeth Robertson|Elizabeth J. Robertson]] (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) * 2009 – [[David Mark Kingsley]] (Stanford University) * 2010 – [[Noriyuki Satoh]] (Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Japan) * 2011 – [[Ruth Lehmann]] (Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) * 2012 – [[Clifford Tabin]] (Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts) * 2013 – [[Marianne Bronner]] (California Institute of Technology) * 2014 – [[Richard Harland (biologist)|Richard Harland]] (University of California, Berkeley) * 2015 – [[Michael Levine (biologist)|Michael S. Levine]] (University of California, Berkeley / Lewis Sigler Institute, Princeton) * 2016 - [[Kathryn Virginia Anderson|Kathryn V. Anderson]] (Sloan Kettering Institute) * 2017 - Philippe M. Soriano (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) * 2018 - [[Robb Krumlauf]] (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) * 2019 - [[Eric N. Olson]] (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) * 2020 - [[Claude Desplan]] (New York University)
== See also ==
* [[List of biology awards]] * [[List of medicine awards]] * [[List of prizes named after people]]
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