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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

2024 K. Christopher Garcia
2023 Se-Jin Lee
2022 Duojia Pan
2021 Alfred Goldberg^[1]
2020 David Eisenberg
2019 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth
2018 Carl June, Michel Sadelain
2017 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
2016 Jonathan C. Cohen [de], Helen Hobbs
2015 James P. Allison (2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon
2013 Rudolf Jaenisch
2012 Eric N. Olson
2011 Elaine Fuchs
2010 David Julius (2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
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 John E. Howard [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 William M. Clark [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 Eric A. Jaffe [de]
1976 Ralph A. Bradshaw [de]
1975 Joan A. Steitz

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