Biotechnology Heritage Award
The Biotechnology Heritage Award is a joint award of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (until 2015 Biotechnology Industry Organization ) and the Science History Institute (until 2018 Chemical Heritage Foundation ). It honors outstanding personalities in the biotechnology industry who “have made important contributions to the treatment of diseases, energy supply or nutrition through discoveries, innovations, commercialization or public relations”.
Award winners
- 1999 George B. Rathmann
- 2000 Herbert Boyer , Robert A. Swanson
- 2001 Francis Collins , J. Craig Venter
- 2002 Walter Gilbert , Phillip A. Sharp
- 2003 William Rutter
- 2004 Leroy Hood
- 2005 Paul Berg
- 2006 Alejandro Zaffaroni
- 2007 Ronald E. Cape
- 2008 Henri Termeer
- 2009 Robert Fraley
- 2010 Arthur D. Levinson
- 2011 Joshua Boger
- 2012 Nancy Chang
- 2013 George Rosary
- 2014 Robert Langer
- 2015 Moshe Alafi , William Bowes
- 2016 Stanley Norman Cohen
- 2017 John C. Martin
- 2018 William Rastetter
- 2019 Janet Woodcock
- 2020 Ivor Royston
Web links
- Biotechnology Heritage Award at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (chemheritage.org)