Ronald Vale

Awards

1. 2012

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For discoveries concerning cytoskeletal motor proteins, machines that move cargoes within cells, contract muscles, and enable cell movements.

2. 2017

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For their discovery of microtubule-associated motor proteins: engines that power cellular and intracellular movements essential to the growth, division, and survival of human cells.

3. 2019

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For the landmark discovery of the motor protein kinesin and pioneering the understanding of its mechanism of action in driving cellular movement processes including cell division and intracellular transport