Awards
Recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 2001 for his research on ubiquitination
In 2006 he won the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology and he won the 2007 $1 million Gotham Prize for an original approach to killing cancer cells.
He has received the 2011 FBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Biomedicine for his discovery of the mechanisms intervening in protein degradation and their importance in biological systems. His work has implications for the understanding of cancer and immunological and neurodegenerative diseases.
| Year | Prize | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research | Ubiquitination |
| 2001 | Wolf Prize in Medicine | Ubiquitination |
| 2001 | Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | Ubiquitination |
| 2006 | March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology | Killing cancer cells |
| 2007 | Gotham Prize | Killing cancer cells |
| 2012 | King Faisal International Prize |
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