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The Gruber Prize in Genetics
Awarded for	Groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research
Location	Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut
Presented by	Gruber Foundation
Reward(s)	US$500,000
First awarded	2001
Website	gruber.yale.edu

The Gruber Prize in Genetics, established in 2001, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Genetics Prize honors leading scientists for distinguished contributions in any realm of genetics research. The Foundation’s other international prizes are in Cosmology, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women’s Rights.

Recipients

2023 Allan Jacobson (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School), and Lynne E. Maquat (University of Rochester School of Medicine)
2022 Ruth Lehmann (Whitehead Institute and MIT), James Priess (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), and Geraldine Seydoux (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).^[1]
2021 Stuart H. Orkin (Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
2020 Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
2019 Bert Vogelstein (Johns Hopkins Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
2018 Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), and Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech)^[2]
2017 Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School^[2]
2016 Michael Grunstein, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and C. David Allis, Rockefeller University^[3]
2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany and Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley^[4]
2014 Victor Ambros, PhD, University of Massachusetts; David Baulcombe, PhD, University of Cambridge; and Gary Ruvkun, PhD, Harvard University
2013 Svante Pääbo, PhD
2012 Douglas C. Wallace, PhD
2011 Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Stanford University
2010 Gerald Fink, PhD, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor at MIT
2009 Janet Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
2008 Allan C. Spradling, PhD, of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Baltimore; for his work on fruit fly genomics
2007 Maynard Olson of the University of Washington, a bioinformatics specialist
2006 Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist specializing in telomeres
2005 Robert Hugh Waterston
2004 Mary Claire King
2003 David Botstein
2002 H. Robert Horvitz
2001 Rudolf Jaenisch

Recipients

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