Awards & Honors
Jeffrey M. Friedman is awarded the 2025 Albany Medical Center Prize
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Our scientists are remarkably productive and empowered to perform at their best. That’s why we have an unparalleled concentration of researchers and trainees recognized with top awards—including the world’s most prestigious bioscience prizes.

Recent Awards & Honors

HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
Steve L. Bonilla
His lab is pursuing insights into the fundamental rules of RNA folding, structure, and dynamic function, and his research has revealed unexpected functions of RNAs in a wide range of biological processes.
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National Academy of Sciences
Svetlana Mojsov
Mojsov’s discovery of GLP-1 and its critical role in the regulation of insulin secretion and blood glucose led to the development of a revolutionary new class of medicines.
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Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Svetlana Mojsov
Mojsov’s discovery of GLP-1 and its critical role in the regulation of insulin secretion and blood glucose led to the development of a revolutionary new class of medicines.
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Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Wenbin Mei
He is honored for work showing that a commonly inherited mutation governs breast cancer metastasis and influences survival.
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Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Svetlana Mojsov
Mojsov is honored for her discovery and characterization of the biologically active form of the hormone glucacon-like peptide (GLP-1).
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Dickson Prize in Medicine
Dickson Prize in Medicine
Leslie B. Vosshall
Vosshall is recognized for her pioneering studies of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits pathogens causing human diseases including d…
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Kavli Prize for Neuroscience
Kavli Prize for Neuroscience
Winrich Freiwald
Freiwald is being honored for his discovery of a specialized system in the brain’s neocortex that is responsible for recognizing faces.
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Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Cori Bargmann
Bargmann is being recognized for her role in linking genetics with behavior.
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TIME100 Most Influential People
TIME100 Most Influential People
Svetlana Mojsov
Mojsov is honored for her groundbreaking discoveries about a blood sugar–regulating gut hormone called GLP-1.
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King Faisal Prize in Medicine
King Faisal Prize in Medicine
Svetlana Mojsov
Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists
Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists
Maria Cecilia Campos Canesso and Veena Padmanaban
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Max Cooper Prize
Jeffrey V. Ravetch
Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Lamia Wahba
Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience
Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience
Leslie B. Vosshall
Novo Nordisk Prize
Novo Nordisk Prize
Jean-Laurent Casanova
W. ALDEN SPENCER AWARD
W. ALDEN SPENCER AWARD
Gaby Maimon
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Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists
Arnaud Vanden Broeck and Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
António Champalimaud Vision Award
António Champalimaud Vision Award
Winrich Freiwald
ICIS Sidney & Joan Pestka Post-Graduate Award
Alex Lercher
Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Svetlana Mojsov
Distinguished Medical Science Award from the National Library of Medicine
Svetlana Mojsov
Tri-I Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators
Naama Aviram, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Medal
Elaine Fuchs
Academia Europaea
Jean-Laurent Casanova

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Awards given by The Rockefeller University

Pearl Meister Greengard Award

The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is an international award recognizing outstanding women in biomedical research.

Maria Jasin is the 2025 recipient of the PMG Prize. Her discoveries of how mammalian cells repair DNA breaks by homologous recombination and how this process guards people against hereditary breast cancer laid the groundwork for gene editing and informed new treatment approaches for BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient tumors.

Lewis Thomas Prize

The Lewis Thomas Prize is an international award for writing about science that honors the rare individuals who bridge the worlds of science and the humanities.

The 2026 awardee, Chris Impey, is an astronomer who is honored for his book, Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity. With lucid prose sprinkled with cultural references from Shakespeare to Avatar, his book educates readers on the incredible scientific and technological advances that have revealed a diversity of planets outside our solar system that circle their own star—where astronomers, astrophysicists, and colleagues in multiple fields are searching for life.