E. Mead Johnson Award
Encyclopedia
The E. Mead Johnson Award, given by the Society for Pediatric Research, an affiliate of the American Pediatric Society
, was established in 1939 to honor clinical and laboratory research achievements in pediatrics
. Awards are funded by Mead Johnson Nutritionals
, a subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb
. In most years, two prizes are awarded. Two researchers sometimes share a prize.
American Pediatric Society
The American Pediatric Society / Society for Pediatric Research are joint professional and advocacy organizations for pediatricians in the United States and Canada....
, was established in 1939 to honor clinical and laboratory research achievements in pediatrics
Pediatrics
Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...
. Awards are funded by Mead Johnson Nutritionals
Mead Johnson
Mead Johnson & Company is a company which was majority owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb after an acquisition in 1967, but was spun off in 2009 as an independent firm. Mead Johnson is a major manufacturer of infant formula both domestically and globally with its flagship product Enfamil...
, a subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...
. In most years, two prizes are awarded. Two researchers sometimes share a prize.
Award recipients
- 1939 Frederic A. GibbsFrederic A. GibbsFrederic Andrews Gibbs was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy....
, Dorothy Hansine AndersenDorothy Hansine AndersenDorothy Hansine Andersen was the American physician who was "the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease"... - 1940 Robert E. GrossRobert E. GrossRobert Ellsworth Gross was an American businessman involved in the field of aviation. His first venture, the Viking Flying Boat Company, failed with the loss of the aircraft market brought on by the Great Depression....
, Lee E. Farr - 1941 René J. Dubos, Albert SabinAlbert SabinAlbert Bruce Sabin was an American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.-Life:...
- 1942 David BodianDavid BodianDavid Bodian , was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research . In the early 1940s he helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of polio vaccines by combining neurological research with the study of the pathogenesis of...
and Howard A. Howe, Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison - 1943 Hattie E. Alexander, Philip LevinePhilip Levine (physician)Philip Levine was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion.-Life and career :...
- 1944 Fuller Albright, Josef Warkany
- 1945 no awards given
- 1946 Horace L. Hodes, Paul A. Harper
- 1947 Helen B. TaussigHelen B. TaussigHelen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetrology of Fallot...
, Louis K. Diamond - 1948 Wolf W. Zuelzer, Benjamin M. Spock
- 1949 Nathan B. Talbot, Henry L. Barnett
- 1950 Charles D. May and Harry Shwachman, Gertrude Henle and Werner Henle
- 1951 William M. Wallace, Victor A. Najjar
- 1952 Seymour S. Cohen, Orvar Swenson and Edward B.D. Neuhauser
- 1953 Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller, Margaret H. Smith
- 1954 Robert E. Cooke, Vincent C. Kelley
- 1955 Robert A. GoodRobert A. Good-External links:** can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School....
- 1956 David Gitlin, Arnall PatzArnall PatzArnall Patz was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 premature babies. Following his discovery, there was a sixty percent reduction in...
- 1957 Alfred M. Bongiovanni and Walter R. Eberlein, Albert Dorfman
- 1958 William A. Silverman, Norman Kretchmer
- 1959 C. Henry Kempe, Barton ChildsBarton ChildsBarton Childs was an American pediatrician and geneticist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Williams College in 1938. In 1942, he received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Following military service in World War II, he returned to Johns Hopkins for a residency in...
- 1960 Robert A. Aldrich, Irving Schulman
- 1961 Lytt Irvine Gardner, Donald E. Pickering
- 1962 Park S. Gerald, Robert L. Vernier
- 1963 Daniel Carleton GajdusekDaniel Carleton GajdusekDaniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious....
, Richard T. Smith - 1964 Robert M. ChanockRobert M. ChanockRobert Merritt Chanock was an American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Chanock was born July 8, 1924 in Chicago. His...
, Abraham M. Rudolph - 1965 David Y.-Y Hsia, L. Stanley James
- 1966 William H. Tooley, Robert W. Winters
- 1967 Henry Neil Kirkman, Henry M. Meyer and Paul D. Parkman
- 1968 Mary Ellen AveryMary Ellen AveryMary Ellen Avery is an American pediatrician. In the 1950s, Dr. Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome in premature babies: her identification of surfactant led to the development of replacement therapy for premature...
, Charles R. Scriver - 1969 Frederick C. Battaglia, Gerard B. Odell
- 1970 Myron Winick, Joseph A. Bellanti
- 1971 Paul G. Quie, Fred S. Rosen
- 1972 Chester M. Edelmann, Frank A. Oski
- 1973 Henry L. Nadler, James G. White
- 1974 Andre J. Nahmias, E. Richard Stiehm
- 1975 John B. Robbins and David H. Smith, Rawle M. McIntosh
- 1976 Haig H. Kazazian, David Lawrence Rimoin
- 1977 Arthur J. Ammann, Michael E. Miller
- 1978 Samuel A. Latt, Pearay L. Ogra
- 1979 Philip L. Ballard, Harvey R. Colten
- 1980 R. Michael Blaese, S. Michael Mauer
- 1981 Robert J. DesnickRobert J. DesnickRobert J. Desnick, Ph.D., M.D., is a human geneticist whose research accomplishments include significant developments in disease gene discovery, inherited metabolic diseases, and the treatment of genetic diseases, including the development of enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease.Desnick is...
, Erwin W. Gelfand - 1982 Larry J. Shapiro, Jerry A. Winkelstein
- 1983 Laurence A. Boxer, Samuel E. Lux
- 1984 Jan L. Breslow, John A. Phillips
- 1985 Russell W. Chesney, Augustine Joseph D'Ercole
- 1986 Raif Salim Geha, Alan H. Jobe
- 1987 Donald C. Anderson, Stuart H. Orkin
- 1988 Jeffrey A. Whitsett, Barry Wolf
- 1989 Steven M. ReppertSteven M. ReppertSteven M. Reppert is an American neuroscientist who has made seminal contributions to the field of circadian biology over the last three decades. His research has focused largely on the physiological, cellular, and molecular basis of circadian rhythms in mammals and more recently on circadian clock...
, Robert H. Yolken - 1990 Gregory A. Grabowski, Arnold W. Strauss
- 1991 Louis M. Kunkel, Ronald G. Worton
- 1992 Ann Margaret Arvin, Francis S. Collins and Lap-Chee TsuiLap-Chee TsuiProfessor Lap-chee Tsui, OC, O.Ont is a Chinese-Canadian geneticist and currently the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.-Personal life:Tsui was born in Shanghai...
- 1993 Edward R.B. McCabe, Alan L. Schwartz
- 1994 David A. WilliamsDavid A. WilliamsDavid A. Williams is the president and chief executive officer of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He was appointed to this position in 2005.-Education:...
, David H. Perlmutter - 1995 Margaret K. Hostetter, Alan M. KrenskyAlan M. KrenskyAlan Krensky is a Senior Investigator in the [Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology] at the National Institutes of Health . He served as the first [Director of the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives and a Deputy Director of NIH]...
- 1996 Perrin C. White, Huda Y. Zoghbi
- 1997 Donald Y.M. Leung, Elaine Tuomanen
- 1998 Jonathan D. Gitlin, James R. Lupski, Jeffrey C. Murray
- 1999 Steven H. Abman and Chaim M. Roifman
- 2000 Mark A. Kay and Gregg L. Semenza
- 2001 Alan D. D'Andrea, Steve A.N. Goldstein
- 2002 Nancy C. Andrews, Markus Grompe
- 2003 Gregory S. Barsh, Val C. Sheffield
- 2004 Bruce D. Gelb, Friedhelm Hildebrandt
- 2005 Elizabeth C. Engle, Terence R. Flotte
- 2006 James E. Crowe, David Pellman
- 2007 Marc E. Rothenberg, Deepak Srivastava
- 2008 Todd R. Golub, Victor NizetVictor NizetVictor Nizet, M.D. is a pediatric physician-scientist who is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in La Jolla, California...