The William Allan Award, given by the American Society of Human Genetics

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...

, was established in 1961 in memory of William Allan

William Allan (geneticist)

William Allan was an American physician and geneticist who made pioneering studies in human genetics and hereditary diseases...

 (1881-1943), one of the first American physicians to conduct extensive research in human genetics.http://genetics.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/about/007a.shtml The William Allan Award is presented annually to recognize substantial and far-reaching scientific contributions to human genetics carried out over a sustained period of scientific inquiry and productivity. An award of $10,000 and an engraved medal are presented at the Annual Meeting.

Award recipients

Leonard Medal Winners

Year	Name
1962	Newton Morton
1965	James Neel
1967	Vernon Ingram Vernon Ingram Vernon M. Ingram, Ph.D., FRS was a German American professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Biography:Ingram was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia...
1968	Harry Harris
1969	Jerome Lejeune Jérôme Lejeune Servant of God Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French Catholic pro-life paediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities...
1970	Arno Motulsky
1973	Barton Childs Barton Childs Barton 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...
1974	Curt Stern
1975	Philip Levine Philip 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 :...  and Alexander S. Wiener Alexander S. Wiener Alexander Solomon Wiener , a lifelong resident of New York City, was recognized internationally for his contributions to medicine. He was an outstanding leader in the fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics. His pioneer work led to discovery of the Rh factor in 1937, along with Dr...
1977	Victor McKusick
1978	Charles Scriver Charles Scriver Charles Robert Scriver, is an eminent Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist. Scriver made many important contributions to our knowledge of inborn errors of metabolism...
1979	F. Clarke Fraser
1980	Walter Bodmer Walter Bodmer Sir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...
1981	Patricia Jacobs Patricia Jacobs Patricia Ann Jacobs FRS FMedSci is a British geneticist, fellow of the Royal society. She is Professor of Human Genetics in University of Southampton at Salisbury District Hospital...
1982	Elizabeth Neufield
1983	Frank Ruddle
1984	Y. W. Kwan Yuet Wai Kan Yuet Wai Kan FRS , is a Canadian and American medical scientist and physician. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology and the head of the Division of Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics at the University of California, San Francisco...
1985	Joseph L. Goldstein Joseph L. Goldstein Joseph L. Goldstein from Kingstree, South Carolina is a Nobel Prize winning biochemist and geneticist, and a pioneer in the study of cholesterol metabolism.-Biography:...  and Michael S. Brown
1986	Mary F. Lyon Mary F. Lyon Mary Frances Lyon, FRS is an English geneticist, who is best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important cytogenetic phenomenon.-Childhood and education:...
1987	Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 .-Books:...
1988	Torbjörn Caspersson Torbjörn Caspersson Professor Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson was a Swedish cytologist and geneticist. He was born in Motala and attended the University of Stockholm, where he studied medicine and biophysics....
1989	David Bostein and Ray White Ray White Ray White is a soul vocalist and rock and blues guitarist, best known as a member of Frank Zappa's touring ensembles. He was drafted into Zappa's band in the fall of 1976, being featured on rhythm guitar and vocals, forming a memorable vocal harmony partnership with Ike Willis on later tours in...
1990	Kary Mullis Kary Mullis Kary Banks Mullis is a Nobel Prize winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year. The process was first...
1991	Janet D. Rowley and Alfred Knudson Jr.
1992	Alec Jeffreys Alec Jeffreys Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
1993	Antonio Cao and Michael Kaback Michael Kaback Michael M. Kaback, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, and chief of the Division of Medical Genetics, at the University of California-San Diego....
1994	Doug Wallace
1995	Kurt Hirschhorn Kurt Hirschhorn Kurt Hirschhorn , is an Viennese born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, and cytogeneticist who identified the chromosomal defects that underlie Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome....
1996	Robert Elston
1997	Philip Leder Philip Leder Philip Leder is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical School....
1998	Bert Vogelstein Bert Vogelstein Bert Vogelstein is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins University. He clarified the role of the gene p53, which repairs DNA in dividing cells and destroys the cell if its DNA cannot be repaired. Damaged p53 is responsible for half of all cancers...
1999	Stephen Warren
2001	Charles J. Epstein
2002	Albert de la Chapelle
2003	David Weatherall David Weatherall Sir David John Weatherall is a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine....
2004	Louis Kunkel
2005	Francis Collins Francis Collins (geneticist) Francis Sellers Collins , is an American physician-geneticist, noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project . He currently serves as Director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to being appointed Director, he founded and...
2006	Dorothy Warburton
2007	Arthur Beaudet
2008	Haig H. Kazazian, Jr.
2009	Huntington F. Willard
2010	Jurg Ott

External links

• Past ASHG Award Recipients