Roderick MacKinnon

Prix

1. 1999

   Prix Lasker — Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Biologie

   For elucidating the functional and structural architecture of ion channel proteins, which govern the electrical potential of membranes throughout nature, thereby generating nerve impulses, and controlling muscle contraction, cardiac rhythm, and hormone secretion.

2. 2001

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

   For the elucidation of the mechanism of action and molecular structure of cation channels.

3. 2003

   prix Nobel — Chimie

   Chimie

   for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes; for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels