Genetics Society of America Medal

The Genetics Society of America Medal is a scientific award, which is awarded since 1981 by the Genetics Society of America (GSA ) for outstanding scientific contributions in the last 15 years in the field of genetics.

Six of the 33 winners later received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (beginning 2012).

Award winners

  • 2014 Angelika B. Amon - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and HHMI
  • Elaine A. Ostrander 2013 - National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute
  • Joanne Chory 2012 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • 2011 John R. Carlson - Yale University
  • 2010 Barbara J. Meyer - University of California, Berkeley
  • 2009 Marian Carlson - Columbia University, New York City and HHMI
  • 2008 Susan Lindquist - The Whitehead Institute / MIT and HHMI, Cambridge, MA
  • Shirley M. Tilghman 2007 - Princeton University
  • 2006 Victor Ambros - Dartmouth Medical School
  • 2005 Stephen J. Elledge - Harvard School of Medicine, Boston
  • 2004 Trudy F. Mackay - North Carolina State University
  • 2003 Jeffrey C. Hall - Brandeis University
  • 2002 Andrew Z. Fire - Carnegie Institution of Washington
  • H. Robert Horvitz 2001 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2000 Jack Szostak - Massachusetts General Hospital
  • 1999 Charles H. Langley - University of California, Davis
  • 1998 Ronald W. Davis - Stanford Univ. Sch. of Medicine
  • 1997 Christine Guthrie - University of California, SF
  • 1996 Elliot Meyerowitz - California Institute of Technology
  • 1995 Eric Wieschaus - Princeton University
  • 1994 Leland H. Hartwell - University of Washington
  • 1993 Jonathan R. Beckwith - Harvard University
  • 1992 Maynard V. Olson - University of Washington
  • 1991 Bruce S. Baker - Stanford University
  • 1990 Nancy Kleckner - Harvard University
  • Allan C. Spradling 1989 - Carnegie Institute of Washington
  • 1987 Sydney Brenner - University of Cambridge, England
  • 1986 Gerald Rubin - Univ. of California, Berkeley
  • 1985 Philip Leder - Harvard University
  • 1984 David S. Hogness - Stanford University
  • 1983 Charles Yanofsky - Stanford University
  • 1982 Gerald R. Fink - Whitehead Institute
  • 1981 Beatrice Mintz - Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia
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