Amory Prize
The Amory Prize (originally Francis Amory Septennial Prize , German Amory Prize ) is a science award for reproductive biology and reproductive medicine - in a very broad sense. It has been awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1940 .
The prize was donated in 1938 from the estate of Francis Amory of Beverly , Massachusetts , and was originally intended to be awarded every seven years for outstanding achievements in the research, relief or healing of diseases of the human sexual organs . Initially, the prize was actually awarded every seven years, most recently at irregular intervals of two to 15 years. In recent years, both biological and medical research have received awards.
Award winners
year | Award winners | Institution / place | Reason | translation |
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2017 | Barbara Jean Meyer | University of California, Berkeley | For her breakthrough solutions to long-standing mysteries about chromosomal expression and sex determination. | For her breakthroughs in exploring long puzzling questions of chromosomal expression and gender determination . |
2012 | Patrick C. Walsh | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland | For research and surgical innovation in the treatment of prostate cancer. | For the research and development of new surgical procedures for the treatment of prostate cancer . |
1997 | Peter N. Goodfellow | SmithKline Beecham, Harlow, Essex, England | For pioneering work on the genetic basis of male sex determination. | For groundbreaking work on the genetic basis of male gender determination . |
Robin H. Lovell badge | MRC, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, England | |||
David C. Page | Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |||
1992 | David L. Garbers | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas | For discovery and identification of factors that regulate sperm function. | For the discovery and identification of factors that regulate sperm function . |
1988 | Beatrice Mintz | The Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | For contributions to reproductive biology and cell differentiation. | For contributions to reproductive biology and cell differentiation . |
1984 | Henry Lardy | University of Wisconsin | For work on the metabolism and function of spermatozoa. | For work on the metabolism and function of sperm . |
1981 | Susumu Ohno | Division of Biology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California | For fundamental contributions to the biology of sex chromosomes and sex-linked genes. | For fundamental contributions to the biology of sex chromosomes and genes related to sex. |
1977 | Elwood Vernon Jensen | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois | For pioneering studies of the mode of action of estrogenic hormones. | For groundbreaking work on the mode of action of estrogens . |
Mary Frances Lyon , FRS | Head, Genetics Section, Medical Research Council Radiobiology Unit, Harwell, England | For genetic discoveries relating to mammalian sex chromosomes. | For genetic discoveries related to the sex chromosomes . | |
Jean D. Wilson | University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas | For contributions to the understanding of androgenic hormones and their relation to human disease. | For contributions to the understanding of androgens and their relationship to human diseases. | |
1975 | Karl Sune Detlof Bergström | Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden | For work in elucidating the chemical structure of prostaglandins. | For his work on the elucidation of the structure of the prostaglandins . |
Min-Chueh Chang | Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Worcester, Massachusetts | For work in the physiology of reproduction and the capacitation of spermatozoa. | For his work on reproductive physiology and sperm capacitation . | |
Howard Guy Williams-Ashman | Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois | For his research in the biochemistry of reproduction and the uncovering of novel biological macromolecule and enzymic processes. | For his research on the biochemistry of reproduction and the discovery of new biological macromolecules and enzymatic processes. | |
1970 | Geoffrey Wingfield Harris | University of Oxford, England | For pioneering work in the field of glandular physiology, particularly on the role of the brain in regulating the functions of the pituitary gland, opening to research a vast new field of neuroendocrinology. | For groundbreaking work on the physiology of endocrine glands , in particular on the role of the brain in controlling the pituitary gland , thus opening up the broad field of neuroendocrinology . |
Hans Henrikson Ussing | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | For important contributions to renal and electrolyte physiology and for his ingenious studies on the transport and hormonal regulation of sodium and water across isolated frog skin, which has led to a new understanding of the transport processes that are basic to the functioning of the human kidney. | For important contributions to the physiology of the kidneys and blood salts and for his ingenious studies on the transport and control of water and sodium through frog skin, which ultimately led to new insights into the function of the basic transport processes of the human kidney. | |
1961 | J. Hartwell Harrison , David M. Hume , Joseph E. Murray | Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts | For their surgical finesse in developing the technique of renal transplantation in humans. | For surgical skill in developing the technique of kidney transplantation in humans. |
John P. Merrill , Benjamin F. Miller , George W. Thorn | Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts | For their imaginative handling of the medical problems connected with the management of renal failure and kidney transplantation. | For her creative solutions to medical problem related to kidney failure and kidney transplant . | |
Harry Goldblatt , Eugene F. Poutasse | Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio | For their studies of renal ischemia and hypertension in humans and the development cures thereof. | For her work on circulatory disorders of the kidneys and arterial hypertension and for the development of treatment methods therefor. | |
Eugene M. Bricker , Justin J. Cordonnier | Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri | For the suggestion, careful development, application, and evaluation of urinary diversion by uretral transplantation to a segment of ileum. | For devising, careful development, application and evaluation of the recovery of the urinary tract through the ileum - grafts . | |
1954 | Frederic EB Foley | Lowry Medical Arts Building, St. Paul, Minnesota | For the development of surgical procedures and instruments that have contributed greatly to the treatment of urological disease. | For the development of surgical procedures and instruments that have advanced the therapy of urological diseases. |
Choh Hao Li | University of California, Berkeley, California | For his work on the relation of the anterior pituitary hormones to the maintenance and functioning of the human reproductive organs. | For his work on the importance of the hormones of the anterior pituitary gland in the maintenance and function of the human reproductive organs. | |
Thaddeus RR man | Molteno Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England | For his basic contributions to the rapidly expanding field of the biochemistry of reproductive functions providing basic data stimulating research and clinical progress. | For his foundational contributions to the rapidly growing field of reproductive biochemistry, which have fueled both research and clinical progress. | |
Terence J. Millin | The Queen's Gate Clinic, London, England | For his valuable contribution to surgery by devising and developing the technique of retropubic prostatectomy for benign hyperplasia of the prostate and for adapting this technique to radical prostatectomy and vesiculectomy for the cure of cancer of the prostate. | For his valuable contributions to surgery in developing the technique of retropubic prostatectomy for benign prostate enlargement and for adapting the method of radical prostatectomy including removal of seminal vesicles in prostate cancer . | |
Warren O. Nelson | State University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa | For his penetrating studies of the structural relationships of the male sex organs and of the factors that determine the functional activities of the various components thereof. | For his profound work on the structural relationships between the male sexual organs and the various factors that determine the function of the individual elements. | |
Frederick J. Wallace | American Cystoscope Makers, Inc., New York, New York | For his cooperation with the urological profession in developing diagnostic and therapeutic instruments that have contributed materially to the technical advances in this specialty. | For his collaboration with urologists in the development of diagnostic and therapeutic instruments that have contributed significantly to the technical development of the field. | |
Lawson Wilkins | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland | In recognition of his significant contributions to fundamental knowledge of growth and development of secondary sex characteristics in men and his brilliant application of adrenal cortical hormone to their management and treatment. | In recognition of his important contributions to the basic understanding of the growth and development of secondary sexual characteristics in men and for his ingenious use of adrenal hormones in the treatment of disorders in this area. | |
1947 | Alexander Benjamin Gutman | New York, New York | For his demonstration, aided by his wife, EB Gutman, of the usefulness of serum acid phosphatase determination in the diagnosis and management of patients with prostatic malignancy. | For his proof - together with his wife EB Gutman - of the value of prostate-specific acid phosphatase for monitoring the progression of prostate cancer . |
Charles Brenton Huggins | Chicago, Illinois | For his studies on the prostate gland, on the influence of several hormones on prostatic secretion, and on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer of the prostate that have brought relief to many men. | For his studies of the prostate , the influence of various hormones on its secretion, and the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer , which helped many men. | |
Willem Johan Kolff | Kampen, The Netherlands | For his development of an artificial kidney in the treatment of patients with uremia and for his monograph describing the construction of the apparatus, indications for its use, and observations on its effectiveness. | For his development of the "artificial kidney" for the treatment of patients with uremia and his monograph, which describes the manufacture, use and success of the method. | |
Guy Frederic Marrian | Edinburgh, Scotland | For his research on the chemistry, biochemistry, and metabolism of the steroid hormones affecting the activity of the male and female generative tract, leading to important diagnostic and therapeutic measures. | For his research on the chemistry, biochemistry and metabolism of steroid hormones with influence on the sexual organs, which led to important diagnostic and therapeutic measures. | |
George Nicholas Papanicolaou | New York, New York | For his development of exfoliative cytology and its application to rapid and simple methods of diagnosis of cancer of the organs of the genitourinary tract. | For its development of the cell smear test ( Pap test ) and its use as a quick and easy method of diagnosing cervical cancer . | |
Selman Abraham Waksman | New Brunswick, New Jersey | For his discovery of streptomycin, an antibiotic agent that has proved to be of great value in the treatment of infections common to the urinary passage. | For his discovery of streptomycin , an antibiotic that has shown great value in the treatment of urinary tract infections . | |
1940 | Ernest Laqueur | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | For his contributions to the physiological, pharmacological, and clinical knowledge of the male sex hormones, and in particular for his investigations of sex hormones that resulted in the discovery of testosterone. | For his contributions to the physiology, pharmacology and clinic of male sex hormones , especially for his work that led to the discovery of testosterone . |
Joseph Francis McCarthy | New York, New York | For the development of instrumental procedures for the examination, diagnosis, and treatment by way of the urethra of certain diseases of the bladder, prostate, and related organs. | For his development of technical measures to examine the bladder, prostate and neighboring genes and to diagnose diseases of these organs through the urethra . | |
Carl Richard Moore | Chicago, Illinois | For his studies of the physiology of spermatozoa and of the male reproductive tract of mammals. His work has demonstrated important influences of hormonal secretions of the male sex glands on the behavior of other components of the male reproductive apparatus. | For his work on the physiology of sperm and the sexual organs of male mammals, with which the important influence of male sex hormones on behavior and other components of the reproductive system could be shown. | |
Hugh Hampton Young | Baltimore, Maryland | For devising the operation of total prostatectomy by the perineal approach. Through this technique, obstruction to the outlet of the urinary bladder caused by cancer of the prostate gland is relieved without interfering with the normal function of the bladder. | For the development of prostatectomy via a perineal access, which can be used to restore impaired urine flow in prostate cancer without affecting normal bladder function. |
literature
- FRANCIS AMORY SEPTENNIAL PRIZE. In: British Medical Journal . Volume 1, Number 4028, March 1938, p. 635, ISSN 0007-1447 . PMID 20781337 . PMC 2086010 (free full text) ( published word for word in: Science , March 4, 1938, p. 207).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ F. Coulston, JM Wolfe, R. Gaunt: MEMOIR WARREN O. NELSON 1906–1964. In: Reproduction. 10, 1965, pp. 157-160, doi: 10.1530 / jrf.0.0100157 .