Sydney Brenner

Awards

1. 1971

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For their brilliant contributions to molecular genetics.

2. 1978

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   In recognition of his highly original and conceptual contributions to molecular biology, and to the understanding of how genetic information is read and translated.

3. 1990

   Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

   CS

   Pioneering Contribution to Molecular Biology through Demonstration of Messenger RNA and Establishment of C. Elegans as an Experimental System for Developmental Biology.

4. 1991

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For establishing C. elegans as a model for studying the genetic control of development.

5. 2000

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

   Biology

   For 50 years of brilliant creativity in biomedical science — exemplified by his legendary work on the genetic code; his daring introduction of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a system for tracing the birth and death of every cell in a living animal; his rational voice in the debate on recombinant DNA; and his trenchant wit.

6. 2002

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'