Curt Stern Award
Encyclopedia
The Curt Stern Award, also known as the Stern Award, honors the memory of Curt Stern (1902-1981) as an outstanding and pioneering human geneticist. Established in 2001, this award is presented annually by the American Society of Human Genetics
(ASHG) for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics
that have occurred in the last 10 years.
American Society of Human Genetics
The American Society of Human Genetics , founded in 1948, is the primary professional membership organization for specialists in human genetics worldwide. As of 2009, the organization had approximately 8,000 members...
(ASHG) for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics
Human genetics
Human genetics describes the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population genetics, developmental genetics, clinical genetics,...
that have occurred in the last 10 years.
Award recipients
- 2001 Daniel Pinkel and Joe W. Gray
- 2002 James Lupski
- 2003 David Page
- 2004 Neil J. RischNeil RischNeil Risch is an American human geneticist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco . Risch is the Lamond Family Foundation Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics and Director of the Institute for Human Genetics and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF.Known...
- 2005 Patrick O. BrownPatrick O. BrownPatrick O. "Pat" Brown M.D., Ph.D., born 1954 in Washington, DC, is a Professor of biochemistry at Stanford University. He got his B.S., M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research uses DNA microarrays to study the gene expression patterns associated with especially cancer...
- 2006 Hal Dietz
- 2007 Jeffrey Murray
- 2008 Evan E. EichlerEvan E. EichlerEvan E. Eichler, Ph.D. is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle....