Stanley N. Cohen

Awards

1. 1980

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For historic achievements that made recombinant DNA a brilliant reality, and inaugurated a new age of biomedical promise.

2. 1981

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his concepts underlying genetic engineering; for constructing a biologically functional hybrid plasmid, and for achieving actual expression of a foreign gene implanted in E. Coli by the recombinant DNA method.

3. 2004

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For their discoveries on DNA cloning and genetic engineering.