Lucy Shapiro

Awards

1. 2009

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity.

2. 2025

   Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science

   Biology

   For a 55-year career in biomedical science—honored for discovering how bacteria coordinate their genetic logic in time and space to generate distinct daughter cells; for founding Stanford’s distinguished Department of Developmental Biology; and for exemplary leadership at the national level