Dickson Prize in Medicine

The Dickson Pize in Medicine was founded in 1969 by Joseph Z. Dickson and Agnes Fischer Dickson. It is awarded annually by the University of Pittsburgh and honors US citizens who have made significant contributions to medicine. The prize money is 50,000 US dollars , including a bronze medal and a lecture. 14 of the 52 winners later received a Nobel Prize (as of June 2020).

The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually by Carnegie Mellon University .

Award winners

• 1971 Earl Wilbur Sutherland (1971 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1972 Solomon Aaron Berson and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1973 John Heysham Gibbon
• 1974 Stephen W. Kuffler
• 1975 Elizabeth F. Neufeld
• 1976 Frank J. Dixon
• 1977 Roger Guillemin (1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1978 Paul Greengard (2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1979 Bert O'Malley
• 1980 David H. Hubel (1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine) and Torsten N. Wiesel (1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1981 Philip Leder
• 1982 Francis H. Ruddle
• 1983 Eric R. Kandel (2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1984 Solomon H. Snyder
• 1985 Robert Charles Gallo
• 1986 J. Michael Bishop (1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1987 Elvin A. Kabat
• 1988 Leroy Hood
• 1989 Bernard Moss
• 1990 Ernst Knobil
• 1991 Phillip A. Sharp (1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1992 Francis Sellers Collins
• 1993 Stanley B. Prusiner (1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 1994 Bert Vogelstein
• 1995 Ronald M. Evans
• 1996 Philippa Marrack
• 1997 Edward Everett Harlow, Jr. and Eric Lander
• 1998 Richard D. Klausner
• 1999 James E. Darnell
• 2000 Elizabeth H. Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 2001 Robert G. Roeder
• 2002 C. David Allis
• 2003 Susan Lindquist
• 2004 Elaine Fuchs
• 2005 Ronald W. Davis
• 2006 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
• 2007 Carol W. Greider (2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 2008 Randy W. Schekman (2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
• 2009 Victor R. Ambros
• 2010 Stephen J. Elledge
• 2011 J. Craig Venter
• 2012 Brian J. Druker
• 2013 Huda Y. Zoghbi
• 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon
• 2015 Karl Deisseroth
• 2016 Jennifer Doudna
• 2017 David M. Sabatini
• 2018 Bonnie Bassler
• 2019 Ruslan Medzhitov
• 2020 James J. Collins

Web links

• Dickson Prize in Medicine , University of Pittsburgh