The Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine or Gabbay Award is an annual prize established in 1998 by the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Foundation to recognize outstanding work in the biomedical sciences. The award is administered by the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and is worth $15,000. The winner also receives a medal and delivers a lecture on his or her work.
The award was created to recognise scientists in academia, medicine or industry as early as possible in their careers whose work had outstanding scientific content and significant practical consequences in the biomedical sciences. Previously known as the Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award, it was renamed in 2016 in honor of Jacob's wife, Louise Gabbay, who was instrumental in founding the award.
Recipients
Source: Brandeis University
2018: Lorenz Studer
2017: James J. Collins
2016: Jeffery W. Kelly
2015: Stephen Quake
2014: Feng Zhang, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier
2013: Karl Deisseroth, Gero Miesenböck, Edward Boyden
2012: Patricia Hunt, Ana M. Soto, Carlos Sonnenschein
2011: James P. Allison
2010: Angela Hartley Brodie
2009: Alan H. Handyside, Ann A. Kiessling, Gianpiero D. Palermo
2008: Alfred Goldberg
2007: Mario R. Capecchi (Nobel Prize 2007) 2006: Alan Davison, Alun Gareth Jones 2005: Fred R. Kramer, Sanjay Tyagi 2004: George M. Whitesides 2003: Roger Brent, Stanley Fields 2002: William Rastetter, Dennis J. Slamon, Gregory P. Winter 2001: J. Michael Ramsey 2000: J. Craig Venter 1999: David V. Goeddel, Thomas P. Maniatis, William J. Rutter 1998: Patrick O. Brown, Stephen P. A. Fodor