The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by theUniversity of Pittsburgh and recognizes US citizens who have made "significant, progressive contributions" to medicine.[1] The award includes $50,000, a bronze medal, and theDickson Prize Lecture.[2]
2000Elizabeth H. Blackburn (Dickson Prize Lecture, April 13, 2000: "Telomere Capping and Cell Proliferation"[4])
2001Robert G. Roeder (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 12, 2001: "Regulation of Transcription in Human Cells: Complexities and Challenges")[5]
2002C. David Allis (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 18, 2002: "Translating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails")[6]
2003Susan L. Lindquist (Dickson Prize Lecture, September 24, 2003: "Protein Conformation as a Pathway to Understanding Cellular Processes, Disease and Bio-Inspired Materials"[7])
2004Elaine Fuchs (Dickson Prize Lecture, 2004: "Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages"[8])
2005Ronald W. Davis (Dickson Prize Lecture, 2005: "New Genomic Technology for Yeast Applied to Clinical Medicine"[9])
2006Roger D. Kornberg (Dickson Prize Lecture, October 5, 2006: "Chromatin and Transcription"[10])
2007Carol W. Greider (Dickson Prize Lecture, October 11, 2007: "Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction"[11])
2008Randy W. Schekman (Dickson Prize Lecture, "Dissecting the Secretion Process: From Basic Mechanism to Human Disease"[12])
2009Victor Ambros (Dickson Prize Lecture, "MicroRNAs, from Model Organisms to Human Biology."[13])
The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually byCarnegie Mellon University and recognizes those who "have made the most progress in the scientific field in the United States for the year in question."[18] The award is dated by the year in which it was announced, which is often the year before the lecture occurs.[19]
1999–2000Howard Raiffa (Dickson Lecture, Tue. April 4, 2000: "Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist"
2000–01Alexander Pines (Dickson Lecture, April 11, 2001: "Some Magnetic Moments"[20]
2001–02Carver Mead (Dickson Lecture, March 19, 2002: "The Coming Revolution in Photography")[21]
2002–03Robert Langer (Dickson Lecture, February 26, 2003: "Biomaterials And How They Will Change Our Lives")
2003–04Marc W. Kirschner (Dickson Lecture, March 30, 2004: "Timing the Inner Cell Cycle")[22]
2004–05George Whitesides (Dickson Lecture, March 28, 2005: "Assumptions: If common assumptions about the modern world break down, then what could science and technology make happen?")
2005–06David Haussler (Dickson Lecture, March 9, 2006: "Ultraconserved elements, living fossil transposons, and rapid bursts of change: reconstructing the uneven evolutionary history of the human genome"
2006–07Jared Diamond (Dickson Lecture, March 26, 2007: "Collapse")[23]
