Roderick MacKinnon

Awards

1. 1999

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   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

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

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

3. 2003

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

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