John B. Gurdon

Prix

1. 1989

   Prix Wolf — Médecine

   Biologie

   for his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in the content of genetic material.

2. 2009

   Prix Lasker — Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Biologie

   For discoveries concerning nuclear reprogramming, the process that instructs specialized adult cells to form early stem cells — creating the potential to become any type of mature cell for experimental or therapeutic purposes.

3. 2012

   prix Nobel — Médecine

   Biologie

   for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent