Passano Foundation

'''The Passano Foundation''', established in 1945, provides an annual award to a research scientist whose work – done in the United States – is thought to have immediate practical benefits. Many Passano laureates have subsequently won the Nobel Prize.

== Selection of award winners ==

=== Passano Laureates === * 2024 K. Christopher Garcia<ref>{{cite web |last=Hendry |first=Christina |title=Christopher Garcia is the 2024 Passano Award winner |url=https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/05/garcia-passano.html |website=Stanford Medicine News Center |date=2024-05-24 |access-date=2025-07-09}}</ref> * 2023 Se-Jin Lee * 2022 Duojia Pan * 2021 Alfred Goldberg<ref>[https://hms.harvard.edu/news/awards-recognitions-february-2021 Laureate 2021]</ref> * 2020 David Eisenberg * 2019 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth * 2018 Carl June, Michel Sadelain * 2017 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore * 2016 {{ill|Jonathan C. Cohen|de|}}, Helen Hobbs * 2015 James P. Allison (2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon * 2013 Rudolf Jaenisch * 2012 Eric N. Olson * 2011 Elaine Fuchs * 2010 David Julius (2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 2009 Irving Weissman * 2008 Thomas Südhof (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 2007 Joan Massagué Solé * 2006 Napoleone Ferrara * 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman * 2003 Andrew Z. Fire (2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 2002 Alexander Rich * 2001 Seymour Benzer * 2000 Giuseppe Attardi, Douglas C. Wallace * 1999 Elizabeth Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Carol W. Greider (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1998 H. Robert Horvitz (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1997 James E. Darnell, Jr. * 1996 Leland H. Hartwell (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1995 Robert G. Roeder, Robert Tjian * 1994 Bert Vogelstein * 1993 Jack L. Strominger, Don Craig Wiley * 1992 Charles Yanofsky * 1991 William S. Sly, Stuart Kornfeld * 1990 Alfred Goodman Gilman (1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1989 Victor Almon McKusick * 1988 Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Edmond Henri Fischer (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1987 Irwin Fridovich * 1986 Albert L. Lehninger, Eugene P. Kennedy * 1985 Howard Green * 1984 Peter Nowell * 1983 John Michael Bishop (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Harold Elliot Varmus (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. Neufeld * 1981 Hugh McDevitt * 1980 Seymour S. Kety * 1979 Donald F. Steiner * 1978 Michael Stuart Brown (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Joseph L. Goldstein (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1977 Curt P. Richter * 1976 Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1975 Henry G. Kunkel * 1974 Seymour S. Cohen, Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1973 Roger Sperry (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1972 Kimishige Ishizaka, Teruko Ishizaka * 1971 Stephen W. Kuffler * 1970 Paul Zamecnik * 1969 George Herbert Hitchings (1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1968 {{ill|John Eager Howard (physician)|de|3=John Eager Howard (Mediziner)|lt=John E. Howard}} * 1967 Irvine Page * 1966 John T. Edsall * 1965 Charles Brenton Huggins (1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1964 Keith R. Porter, George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1963 Horace Winchell Magoun * 1962 Albert Hewett Coons * 1961 Owen Harding Wangensteen * 1960 René Dubos * 1959 Stanhope Bayne-Jones * 1958 George W. Corner * 1957 {{ill|William M. Clark|de|}} * 1956 George Nicolas Papanicolaou * 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) * 1954 Homer Smith * 1953 John Franklin Enders (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1952 Herbert M. Evans * 1951 Philip Levine, Alexander Solomon Wiener * 1950 Edward Calvin Kendall (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Philip Showalter Hench (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1949 Oswald Avery * 1948 Alfred Blalock, Helen Brooke Taussig * 1947 Selman Abraham Waksman (1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1946 Ernest W. Goodpasture * 1945 Edwin J. Cohn

=== Young Scientist Award === * 1992 Tom Curran * 1991 Roger Tsien (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) * 1990 Matthew P. Scott * 1989 Louis M. Kunkel * 1988 Peter Walter * 1987 Jeremy Nathans * 1986 James Rothman (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1985 Mark M. Davis * 1984 Thomas R. Cech (1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) * 1983 Gerald M. Rubin, Allan C. Spradling * 1982 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) * 1981 William A. Catterall, Joel M. Moss * 1979 Richard Axel (2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) * 1978 Robert Lefkowitz (2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) * 1977 {{ill|Eric A. Jaffe|de}} * 1976 {{ill|Ralph A. Bradshaw|de}} * 1975 Joan A. Steitz

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://passanofoundation.org/ Passano Foundation Home Page]

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