WICB Junior and Senior Awards
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The Women In Cell Biology Committee recognizes outstanding achievements in cell biology
by presenting two Career Recognition Awards at the ASCB Annual Meeting. The Junior Award is given to a woman in an early stage of her career (generally seven or eight years in an independent position) who has made exceptional scientific contributions to cell biology and exhibits the potential for continuing a high level of scientific endeavor while fostering the career development of damaged young scientists. The Senior Award is given to a woman or man in a later career stage (generally full professor or equivalent) whose outstanding scientific achievements are coupled with a long-standing record of support for women in science
and by mentorship of both men and women in scientific careers.
Cell biology
Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...
by presenting two Career Recognition Awards at the ASCB Annual Meeting. The Junior Award is given to a woman in an early stage of her career (generally seven or eight years in an independent position) who has made exceptional scientific contributions to cell biology and exhibits the potential for continuing a high level of scientific endeavor while fostering the career development of damaged young scientists. The Senior Award is given to a woman or man in a later career stage (generally full professor or equivalent) whose outstanding scientific achievements are coupled with a long-standing record of support for women in science
Women in science
Women have made contributions and sacrifices to science from the earliest times. Like many men in science, women have received little or no distinction for their work during their lifetimes. Science is generally and historically a male-dominated field, and evidence suggests that this is due to...
and by mentorship of both men and women in scientific careers.
Senior Awardees
- 2010 Zena Werb
- 2009 Janet RossantJanet RossantJanet Rossant FRS is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is currently the Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in Toronto, Canada....
- 2008 Fiona WattFiona WattFiona Watt, FRS is a British scientist. She studies epidermal stem cells at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, at both of which she holds the position of Deputy Director. She received a DPhil degree in 1979 from the University...
- 2007 Frances Brodsky
- 2006 Joseph Gall
- 2005 Elizabeth BlackburnElizabeth BlackburnElizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
- 2004 Susan LindquistSusan LindquistSusan Lindquist is a professor of biology at MIT specializing in molecular biology, particularly the protein folding problem within a family of molecules known as heat-shock proteins, and prions...
- 2003 Philip Stahl
- 2002 Natasha Raikhel
- 2001 Joan Brugge
- 2000 Shirley Tilghman
- 1999 Ursula GoodenoughUrsula GoodenoughUrsula W. Goodenough is a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the best selling book Sacred Depths of Nature...
- 1998 Christine Guthrie
- 1997 Elaine FuchsElaine FuchsElaine V. Fuchs is an American cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs also pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which assess protein function first and then assesses its...
- 1996 Sarah C. R. Elgin
- 1995 Virginia ZakianVirginia ZakianVirginia Zakian is an American biologist and professor of life sciences at Princeton University.A graduate of Upper Darby High School, Zakian received the A.B. in 1970 from Cornell University and the Ph.D. in 1975 from Yale University....
- 1994 Ann Hubbard
- 1993 Mina BissellMina BissellMina J. Bissell, Ph.D., is an Iranian American biologist and a world-recognized leader in the area of the role of extracellular matrix and microenvironment in regulation of tissue-specific function, with special emphasis on breast cancer....
- 1992 Helen Blau
- 1991 Hynda Kleinman
- 1990 Dorthea Wilson and Rosemary Simpson
- 1989 Dorothy Bainton
- 1988 No Awardees selected
- 1987 Dorothy M. Skinner
- 1986 Mary Clutter
Junior Awardees
- 2010 Magdalena Bezanilla
- 2009 Yukiko M. Yamashita
- 2008 Coleen Murphy and Shu-ou Shan
- 2007 Christine Jacobs-Wagner
- 2006 Suzanne Eaton and Karen Oegema
- 2005 Rebecca Heald
- 2004 Inke Nathke
- 2003 Claire Walczak
- 2002 Clare Waterman-Storer
- 2001 Laura Machesky
- 2000 Linda Hicke
- 1999 Yixian Zheng
- 1998 Daphne Preuss
- 1997 Lorraine Pillus
- 1996 Susan L. Forsburg
- 1995 Trina Schroer
- 1994 Julie TheriotJulie TheriotJulie A. Theriot is an American microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.She graduated from...
- 1993 Cory Abate
- 1992 Kathy Foltz
- 1991 Alison Adams and Elizabeth Taparowsky
- 1990 Sandra Schmid
- 1989 Jeanne Lawrence
- 1988 No Awardees Selected
- 1987 Vassie Ware
- 1986 Mary Beckerle