The Passano Foundation, established in 1945, provides an annual award of (USD) $ 100 000 to a research scientist whose work – done in the United States – is thought to have immediate practical benefits. Many Passano laureates have subsequently won the Nobel Prize.
Selection of award winners
Passano Laureates
- 2016 Jonathan C. Cohen, Helen Hobbs
- 2015 James P. Allison
- 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon
- 2013 Rudolf Jaenisch
- 2012 Eric N. Olson
- 2011 Elaine Fuchs
- 2010 David Julius
- 2009 Irving Weissman
- 2008 Thomas Südhof (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 2007 Joan Massagué Solé
- 2006 Napoleone Ferrara
- 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
- 2003 Andrew Z. Fire (2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 2002 Alexander Rich
- 2001 Seymour Benzer
- 2000 Giuseppe Attardi, Douglas C. Wallace
- 1999 Elizabeth Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Carol W. Greider (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1998 H. Robert Horvitz (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1997 James E. Darnell, Jr.
- 1996 Leland H. Hartwell (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1995 Robert G. Roeder, Robert Tjian
- 1994 Bert Vogelstein
- 1993 Jack L. Strominger, Don Craig Wiley
- 1992 Charles Yanofsky
- 1991 William S. Sly, Stuart Kornfeld
- 1990 Alfred Goodman Gilman (1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1989 Victor Almon McKusick
- 1988 Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Edmond Henri Fischer (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1987 Irwin Fridovich
- 1986 Albert L. Lehninger, Eugene P. Kennedy
- 1985 Howard Green
- 1984 Peter Nowell
- 1983 John Michael Bishop (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Harold Elliot Varmus (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
- 1981 Hugh McDevitt
- 1980 Seymour S. Kety
- 1979 Donald F. Steiner
- 1978 Michael Stuart Brown (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Joseph L. Goldstein (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1977 Curt P. Richter
- 1976 Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1975 Henry G. Kunkel
- 1974 Seymour S. Cohen, Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1973 Roger Sperry (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1972 Kimishige Ishizaka, Teruko Ishizaka
- 1971 Stephen W. Kuffler
- 1970 Paul Zamecnik
- 1969 George Herbert Hitchings (1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1968 John E. Howard
- 1967 Irvine Page
- 1966 John T. Edsall
- 1965 Charles Brenton Huggins (1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1964 Keith R. Porter, George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1963 Horace Winchell Magoun
- 1962 Albert Hewett Coons
- 1961 Owen H. Wangensteen
- 1960 René Dubos
- 1959 Stanhope Bayne-Jones
- 1958 George W. Corner
- 1957 William M. Clark
- 1956 George Nicolas Papanicolaou
- 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- 1954 Homer Smith
- 1953 John Franklin Enders (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1952 Herbert M. Evans
- 1951 Philip Levine, Alexander Solomon Wiener
- 1950 Edward Calvin Kendall (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Philip Showalter Hench (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1949 Oswald Avery
- 1948 Alfred Blalock, Helen Brooke Taussig
- 1947 Selman Abraham Waksman (1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1946 Ernest W. Goodpasture
- 1945 Edwin J. Cohn
Young Scientist Award
- 1992 Tom Curran
- 1991 Roger Tsien (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- 1990 Matthew P. Scott
- 1989 Louis M. Kunkel
- 1988 Peter Walter
- 1987 Jeremy Nathans
- 1986 James Rothman (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1985 Mark M. Davis
- 1984 Thomas R. Cech (1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- 1983 Gerald M. Rubin, Allan C. Spradling
- 1982 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- 1981 William A. Catterall, Joel M. Moss
- 1979 Richard Axel (2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1978 Robert Lefkowitz (2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- 1977 Eric A. Jaffe
- 1976 Ralph A. Bradshaw
- 1975 Joan A. Steitz
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