Passano Foundation

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The Passano Foundation, established in 1945, provides an annual award to a research scientist whose work – done in the United States – is thought to have immediate practical benefits. Many Passano laureates have subsequently won the Nobel Prize.

Selection of award winners[]

Passano Laureates[]

• 2021 ^[1]
• 2020 David Eisenberg
• 2019 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth
• 2018 Carl June, Michel Sadelain
• 2017 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
• 2016  [de], Helen Hobbs
• 2015 James P. Allison
• 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon
• 2013 Rudolf Jaenisch
• 2012 Eric N. Olson
• 2011 Elaine Fuchs
• 2010 David Julius
• 2009 Irving Weissman
• 2008 Thomas Südhof (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 2007 Joan Massagué Solé
• 2006 Napoleone Ferrara
• 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
• 2003 Andrew Z. Fire (2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 2002 Alexander Rich
• 2001 Seymour Benzer
• 2000 Giuseppe Attardi, Douglas C. Wallace
• 1999 Elizabeth Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Carol W. Greider (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1998 H. Robert Horvitz (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1997 James E. Darnell, Jr.
• 1996 Leland H. Hartwell (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1995 Robert G. Roeder, Robert Tjian
• 1994 Bert Vogelstein
• 1993 Jack L. Strominger, Don Craig Wiley
• 1992 Charles Yanofsky
• 1991 William S. Sly, Stuart Kornfeld
• 1990 Alfred Goodman Gilman (1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1989 Victor Almon McKusick
• 1988 Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Edmond Henri Fischer (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1987 Irwin Fridovich
• 1986 Albert L. Lehninger, Eugene P. Kennedy
• 1985 Howard Green
• 1984 Peter Nowell
• 1983 John Michael Bishop (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Harold Elliot Varmus (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
• 1981 Hugh McDevitt
• 1980 Seymour S. Kety
• 1979 Donald F. Steiner
• 1978 Michael Stuart Brown (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Joseph L. Goldstein (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1977 Curt P. Richter
• 1976 Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1975 Henry G. Kunkel
• 1974 Seymour S. Cohen, Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1973 Roger Sperry (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1972 Kimishige Ishizaka, Teruko Ishizaka
• 1971 Stephen W. Kuffler
• 1970 Paul Zamecnik
• 1969 George Herbert Hitchings (1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1968  [de]
• 1967 Irvine Page
• 1966 John T. Edsall
• 1965 Charles Brenton Huggins (1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1964 Keith R. Porter, George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1963 Horace Winchell Magoun
• 1962 Albert Hewett Coons
• 1961 Owen Harding Wangensteen
• 1960 René Dubos
• 1959 Stanhope Bayne-Jones
• 1958 George W. Corner
• 1957  [de]
• 1956 George Nicolas Papanicolaou
• 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
• 1954 Homer Smith
• 1953 John Franklin Enders (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1952 Herbert M. Evans
• 1951 Philip Levine, Alexander Solomon Wiener
• 1950 Edward Calvin Kendall (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Philip Showalter Hench (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1949 Oswald Avery
• 1948 Alfred Blalock, Helen Brooke Taussig
• 1947 Selman Abraham Waksman (1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1946 Ernest W. Goodpasture
• 1945 Edwin J. Cohn

Young Scientist Award[]

• 1992 Tom Curran
• 1991 Roger Tsien (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
• 1990 Matthew P. Scott
• 1989 Louis M. Kunkel
• 1988 Peter Walter
• 1987 Jeremy Nathans
• 1986 James Rothman (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1985 Mark M. Davis
• 1984 Thomas R. Cech (1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
• 1983 Gerald M. Rubin, Allan C. Spradling
• 1982 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
• 1981 William A. Catterall, Joel M. Moss
• 1979 Richard Axel (2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• 1978 Robert Lefkowitz (2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
• 1977  [de]
• 1976  [de]
• 1975 Joan A. Steitz

References[]

External links[]

• Passano Foundation Home Page

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