Richard Lounsbery Award

The Richard Lounsbery Award ( Prix Richard Lounsbery ) is a since 1979 by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the French Académie des Sciences award science prize in the field of biology and medicine.

The price is to promote scientific exchange between France and the United States. It is awarded alternately to young French and U.S. scientists in recognition of extraordinary scientific achievements. In addition to the actual prize money of U.S. $ 50,000 (as of 2013) is the prize winner placed a sum of money available, which allows him a research stay in the other country. The winner will also hold a lecture in the partner country.

The Richard Lounsbery Award was donated by Vera Lounsbery in memory of her late husband Richard Lounsbery.

Award winners

2014 Frédéric Saudou: For his major Contributions to the understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms Causing Huntington 's disease. His findings represent a seminal discovery in the understanding of Huntington 's disease and in important step towards a future therapeutic strategy.
2013 Karl Deisseroth: For pioneering the technology called optogenetics In Which insertion of a single bacterial protein into a neuron Allows exquisite control of the neuron with light.
2012 Olivier Pourquié: For his work in embryonic patterning in vertebrates and particularly in the genetic and developmental mechanisms did control segmentation.
2011 Bonnie L. Bassler: For her pioneering discoveries of the universal use of chemical communication among bacteria and the elucidation of structural and regulatory mechanisms controlling bacterial assemblies.
2010 Gerard Karsenty: For his work on the molecular mechanisms underlie the formation did and the remodeling of bone.
2009 Cornelia I. Bargmann: For her extraordinarily inventive and successful use of molecular and classical genetics to probe the individual nerve cell basis of behavior in C. elegans.
2008 Jean -Laurent Casanova: For his Contributions to the understanding the genetic basis of the predisposition to viral and bacterial diseases of childhood, Which have important clinical implications for the diagnostic and management of infectious diseases.
2007 Xiaodong Wang: For his pioneering biochemical studies on apoptosis, Which have elucidated a molecular pathway leading into and out of the mitochondrion and to the nucleus.
2006 Catherine Dulac: For her major Contributions in the perception and behavioral translation of pheromones in mammals.
2005 John Kuriyan: For his critical role in revealing the structural mechanisms underlying processivity in DNA replication and the regulation of tyrosine kinases and Their interacting target proteins.
2004 Brigitte Kieffer: For her pioneering work on the molecular neurobiology of opioid- controlled behaviors, the nominal real results have very important implications for the treatment of pain, drug abuse, and emotional disorders.
Carol W. Greider 2003: For her pioneering biochemical and genetic studies of telomerase, the enzyme did Maintains the ends of chromosomes in eukaryotic cells.
2002 Denis Le Bihan: For his work on The Invention and development of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of brain diffusion and perfusion. The method he developed permits in vivo mapping of nerve fiber bundles and Has multiple applications in Both medical pathology and cognitive science fields.
2001 Elaine Fuchs: For her fundamental insights into structure and function of cytoskeletal proteins and the relation of human genetic diseases to synthesis proteins.
Miroslav Radman 2000: For his contribution to the discovery of the molecular mechanisms implicated in the replication and repair of DNA, in Particular, the discovery of a key enzyme of the DNA repair mechanism.
Elliot M. Meyerowitz 1999: For his pioneering Contributions to the molecular genetics of plant architecture, Which have practical implications for agriculture.
Pascale Cossart 1998: For her fundamental discoveries in microbiology dealing with mechanisms of bacterial entry and intracellular motility host.
1997 James E. Rothman: For his dissection of the biochemical mechanisms by Which proteins are Transferred from one cellular compartment to another and to the outside world. These mechanisms are important in neurotransmission, tissue biogenesis, and hormonal secretion.
1996 Daniel Louvard, Jacques Pouysségur: For their Contributions to the study of the regulation of cell division and differentiation.
1995 Douglas A. Melton: For showing how cells and tissues differentiate falling on vertebrate development through studies on localized mRNAs in eggs and the genes did induce mesoderm and neural tissue.
1994 Jean -Louis Mandel: For his work in human genetics and in Particular for his discovery of the mutation of fragile X. This new type of mutation Has now been found at the origin of the diseases.
Stanley B. Prusiner 1993, Bert Vogelstein: For their distinct and exciting discoveries about the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative and malignant diseases. This award is givenName as a celebration of the power of modern molecular medicine.
1992 Philippe Ascher, Henri Korn: For their discoveries of the mechanisms of synaptic transmission. Philippe Asher ford feathered knowledge Regarding the properties of glutamate receptors play in important role in Which trials, and Henri Korn Brought to light the elementary liberation of neurotransmitter quanta in shape in the central nervous system of vertebrates.
1991 Marc W. Kirschner: For elucidating key steps in the cell cycle, chromosome movement, cell cycle timing, nucleus breakdown and reformation, and microtubule control of cell polarity and mitosis.
1991 Harold Weintraub: For elucidating a molecular mechanism by Which a single regulatory gene can lead to a program of cell differentiation.
1990 Jean Rosa: For his Contributions, Which have opened a new road in the control of oxygen transport in the blood and the treatment of the first worldwide genetic plague, drepanocytosis.
1989 Richard Axel: For his discoveries elucidating gene structure in animal cells.
1988 François Cuzin: For his original Contributions in the elucidation of the mechanisms Involved in malignant cell transformation, in Particular, demonstration of the Necessary contribution of two oncogenes.
1987 Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell: For their discoveries Regarding the proteins and mechanisms did mediate cellular responses to the binding of ligands to cell surface receptors.
1986 André Capron, Jacques Glowinski: For their fundamental work, Which Has Contributed to the treatment of parasitic and neurological diseases.
1985 Martin Gellert, Thomas Maniatis: For their seminal Contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of DNA, Which were essential and fundamental to the development of recombinant DNA techniques.
1984 Maxime Schwartz: For his genetic and biochemical analysis of the maltose system of E. coli, Which paved the way for the solution of a series of fundamental problems in molecular biology.
1983 Günter Blobel: For his work in uncovering the molecular interactions did control the traffic of newly Synthesized proteins in eukaryotic cells, for his incisive experiments, and for the beauty of the findings by Which he established prosthesis interactions.
1982 Pierre Chambon, Jean Pierre Changeux: For their work on fundamental structures of genetic material and of the nervous System.
1981 Philip Leder: For his series of notable Contributions in molecular genetics, Which help to explain the Means by Which genetic information is organized and used to direct the synthesis of specific cell products.
1980 François Morel: For his work on the physiology of the kidney.
1979 Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein: For their work in cholesterol biosynthesis.

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