The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research is the United States' second highest value prize in medicine and biomedical research, awarded by the Albany Medical Center. Among prizes for medicine worldwide, the Albany Medical Center Prize is the fourth most lucrative (after the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the $1.2 million Nobel Prize in Medicine and the $1 million Shaw Prize in life science and medicine). Awarded annually, the $500,000 prize is bestowed to any physician or scientist, or group, whose work has led to significant advances in the fields of health care and scientific research with demonstrated translational benefits applied to improved patient care. The prize is a legacy to its founder, the late Morris "Marty" Silverman. At the inaugural awards ceremony in Albany, NY in March 2001, Silverman started a tradition that will be carried on for one hundred years, the duration of the Prize. Silverman's promise was to light one candle each year to honor that year's recipient.
Recipients 2025: Press Release
Jeffrey M. Friedman 2024: Press Release
Howard Y. Chang Adrian R. Krainer Lynne E. Maquat 2023: Press Release
Bonnie L. Bassler Jeffrey I. Gordon Dennis L. Kasper 2022: Press Release
C. David Allis Michael Grunstein 2021: Press Release
Barney Graham Katalin Karikó Drew Weissman 2020:
Not awarded 2019: Press Release
Bert Vogelstein Irving Weissman 2018: Press Release
James P. Allison Carl H. June Steven A. Rosenberg 2017: Press Release Archived 2019-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
Emmanuelle Charpentier Jennifer Doudna Luciano Marraffini Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica Feng Zhang 2016: Press Release
F. Ulrich Hartl Arthur L. Horwich Susan L. Lindquist 2015: Press Release
Karl Deisseroth Xiaoliang Xie 2014: Press Release
Alexander Varshavsky 2013: Press Release
Brian J. Druker Peter C. Nowell Janet D. Rowley 2012: Press Release
James E. Darnell Jr Robert G. Roeder 2011: Press Release Archived 2015-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
Elaine Fuchs James A. Thomson Shinya Yamanaka 2010: Press Release
David Botstein Francis S. Collins Eric S. Lander 2009: Press Release Archived 2015-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
Bruce A. Beutler Charles A. Dinarello Ralph M. Steinman 2008: Press Release
Joan A. Steitz Elizabeth Blackburn 2007: Press Release Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
Robert J. Lefkowitz Solomon H. Snyder Ronald M. Evans 2006: Press Release
Seymour Benzer 2005: Press Release
Robert S. Langer 2004:
Stanley N. Cohen Herbert W. Boyer 2003:
Michael S. Brown Joseph L. Goldstein 2002:
Anthony Fauci 2001:
Arnold J. Levine
See also List of medicine awards
References
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