Laureate

David Baulcombe

Born 1952 · United Kingdom · Male

Awards

  1. 2008

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Biology

    For discoveries that revealed an unanticipated world of tiny RNAs that regulate gene function in plants and animals.

  2. 2010

    Wolf Prize — Agriculture

    Biology

    for pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants is of profound importance, not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole, including the field of medicine.