2025-26
Leslie Griffith - Brandeis University, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience; Director, Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Sangjin Kim - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2024-25
Sally Temple - The Neural Stem Cell Institute

Susan Golden - University of California San Diego. “Circadian regulation of gene expression in vivo and in vitro.”

Nina Salama - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. “Helicobacter pylori helical cell shape: how and why.”

Yukiko Yamashita - Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Germline immortality and evolution.”

Haifan Lin, Ph.D. - Yale School of Medicine. “The Piwi-piRNA Pathway: a New Paradigm of Genomic Regulation.”

2024
Charles Rice, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology, The Rockefeller University.

2023
Jie Xiao, Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Spatial organization of biological functions—a single-molecule review of bacterial cell division.”

2016
Jasper Rine, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development at University of California, Berkeley. "Epigenetic inheritance meets metabolism."

2013
Eric F. Wieschaus, Squibb Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University and the 1995 recipient of the Nobel Prize. "Cellular Mechanics and Cell Shape Change during Drosophila Gastrulation." 

2011
Joseph G. Gall, Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carneige Institution for Science. "Transcription During the Lampbrush Chromosome Stage of Oogenesis."

2011
C. David Allis, Tri-Institutional Professor, Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University. "Beyond the Double Helix: Varying the 'Histone Code.'"

2010
Tian Xu, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine. "Forward Genetic Screens In Flies and Mice for Deciphering Biology and Disease"

2009
Terry Orr-Weaver, Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Differential DNA Replication as a Developmental Strategy and Replication Model"

2007
David Baulcombe, Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge, UK. "The Biogenesis and Roles of Small Silencing RNAs"

2006
J. Richard McIntosh, Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder. "The Logic of Chromosome Movement"

2005
Cynthia Kenyon, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco. "From Worms to Mammals: The Hormonal Control of Life Span"

2003 Sharon Long

2002 Philip Hanawalt

2001 David M. Prescott

2000 Elliot Meyerowitz

1999 John Kilmartin

1998 Jim Forney, Eric Meyer, Meng-Chao Yao and John Preer

1997 Randy W. Schekman

1996 Lucy Shapiro

1995 Gerald M. Rubin

1994 Christine Guthrie

1993 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

1992 Melvin I. Simon

1991 Elizabeth H. Blackburn

1990 Thomas R. Cech

1989 Ira Herskowitz

1988 Franklin Stahl

1987 David Botstein

1986 Mark Ptashne

1985 David S. Hogness

1984 Gerald R. Fink

1983 Philip Leder

1982 Donald D. Brown

1981 Charles Yanofsky