Roger Y. Tsien - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Roger Y. Tsien has received numerous honors and awards in his life, including:

• National 1st Prize, Westinghouse Science Talent Search (1968)
• National Merit Scholarship, USA (1968)
• Detur Prize, Harvard College (1969)
• Marshall Scholarship, British government (1972)
• Comyns Berkeley Research Fellowship, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1977)
• Gedge Prize, University of Cambridge (1978)
• Searle Scholar, Searle Scholar program (1983)
• Lamport Prize, New York Academy of Sciences (1986)
• Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (1989)
• Young Scientist Award, Passano Foundation (1991)
• W. Alden Spencer Award in Neurobiology, Columbia University (1991)
• Artois-Baillet-Latour Health Prize, Belgium (1995)
• Gairdner Foundation International Award, Canada (1995)
• Basic Research Prize, American Heart Association (1995)
• Elected to the United States Institute of Medicine (1995)
• Doctorate honoris causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1995)
• Faculty Research Lecturer, UC San Diego (1997)
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)
• Elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (1998)
• Award for Innovation in High Throughput Screening, Society for Biomolecular Screening (1998)
• Pearse Prize, Royal Microscopical Society (2000)
• ACS Award for Creative Invention, American Chemical Society (2002)
• Christian B. Anfinsen Award, Protein Society (2002)
• Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
• Max Delbrück Medal, Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin (2002)
• Wolf Prize in Medicine, Israel (2004)
• Keio Medical Science Prize, Japan (2004)
• UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Science & Engineering Research, UC San Diego (2004)
• Perl Prize in Neuroscience, University of North Carolina (2004)
• Associate Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (2005)
• J.Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, Robarts Research Institute, Canada (2005)
• ABRF Award, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (2006)
• Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in the Basic Medical Sciences, Brandeis University (2006)
• Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society, UK (2006)
• BioPharma Leadership Award, the 6th Annual San Diego BioPharma Conference, San Diego (2007)
• US Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Innovator Award
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Sweden (2008)
• E.B. Wilson Medal, American Society for Cell Biology (2008)
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (HonFRSC), UK (2008)
• Honorary Academician, Academia Sinica (2008)
• February 18, 2009, Roger Tsien Day, in the City of San Diego, California, USA
• Distinguished Science and Technology Award, The 2009 Asian American Engineers of the Year (AAEoY) Award (April 2009)
• Lifetime Innovation Award, UC San Diego (May 20, 2009)
• AHA Distinguished Scientists, American Heart Association (2009)
• Molecular Imaging Achievement Award, Society of Molecular Imaging (2009)
• Doctor of Science honoris causa, The University of Hong Kong (2009)
• Doctor of Science honoris causa, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009)
• General President Gold Medal, the 97th Indian Science Congress, India (January 3, 2010)
• Spiers Memorial Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2010)