Edwin G. Conklin Medal
The Edwin G. Conklin Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) based in Bethesda , Maryland in the United States . It is awarded for “outstanding and sustained” research in the field of developmental biology and is named after Edwin Grant Conklin (1863–1952), an American biologist who is considered one of the founders of developmental biology.
The winners receive a commemorative medal and give a lecture at the annual SDB conference.
Award winners
- 1995: John Phillip Trinkaus (Yale University)
- 1996: John W. Saunders , Jr. (State University of New York at Albany)
- 1997: Elizabeth D. Hay (Harvard Medical School)
- 1998: Thomas C. Kaufman (Indiana University)
- 1999: Clement Markert (Yale University)
- 2000: Charles B. Kimmel (University of Oregon)
- 2001: John B. Gurdon (University of Cambridge)
- 2002: Gail R. Martin (University of California, San Francisco)
- 2003: Allan Spradling (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD)
- 2004: Matthew P. Scott (Stanford University)
- 2005: Nicole Le Douarin (Honoraire at the Collège de France and Secrétaire Perpétuelle of the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France)
- 2006: Trudi Schupbach (Princeton University)
- 2007: Janet Rossant (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)
- 2008: Elizabeth J. Robertson (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
- 2009: David Mark Kingsley (Stanford University)
- 2010: Noriyuki Satoh (Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Japan)
- 2011: Ruth Lehmann (Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
- 2012: Cliff Tabin (Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
- 2013: Marianne Bronner (California Institute of Technology)
- 2014: Richard Harland (University of California, Berkeley)
- 2015: Michael S. Levine (University of California, Berkeley, Lewis Sigler Institute, Princeton)
- 2016: Kathryn Anderson (Sloan Kettering Institute)
- 2017: Philippe M. Soriano (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
- 2018: Robb Krumlauf (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
- 2019: Eric N. Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
- 2020: Claude Desplan (New York University)
Web links
- Edwin G. Conklin Medal. In: sdbonline.org. Society for Developmental Biology(English).