Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry

The Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry was established in 1934. Consisting of a bronze medal and honorarium, its purpose is to stimulate fundamental research in biological chemistry by scientists not over thirty-eight years of age. The Award is administered by the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Recipients
Past recipients of the Lilly Award:


 * 1935 – Willard Myron Allen
 * 1937 – Harold S. Alcott
 * 1938 – Abraham White
 * 1939 – George Wald
 * 1940 – Eric G. Ball
 * 1941 – David Rittenberg
 * 1942 – Earl A. Evans, Jr.
 * 1943 – Herbert E. Carter
 * 1944 – Joseph S. Fruton
 * 1945 – Max A. Lauffer
 * 1946 – John D. Ferry
 * 1947 – Sidney Colowick
 * 1948 – Dilworth Wayne Woolley
 * 1949 – Irving M. Klotz
 * 1950 – William Shive
 * 1951 – John M. Buchanan
 * 1952 – David M. Bonner
 * 1953 – Nathan O. Kaplan
 * 1954 – Harvey A. Itano
 * 1955 – William F. Neuman
 * 1956 – Robert A. Alberty
 * 1957 – Harold A. Scheraga
 * 1958 – Lester J. Reed
 * 1959 – Paul Berg
 * 1960 – James D. Watson
 * 1961 – Frederick Crane (biochemist)
 * 1962 – Jerard Hurwitz
 * 1963 – William P. Jencks
 * 1964 – Bruce N. Ames
 * 1965 – Gerald M. Edelman
 * 1966 – Phillips W. Robbins
 * 1967 – Gordon G. Hammes
 * 1968 – Charles C. Richardson
 * 1969 – Mario R. Capecchi
 * 1970 – Lubert Stryer
 * 1971 – David F. Wilson
 * 1972 – Bruce M. Alberts
 * 1973 – C. Fred Fox
 * 1974 – James Dahlberg
 * 1975 – Mark Ptashne
 * 1976 – Joan A. Steitz
 * 1977 – Robert G. Roeder
 * 1978 – Charles R. Cantor
 * 1979 – Christopher T. Walsh
 * 1980 – Phillip A. Sharp
 * 1981 – Roger D. Kornberg
 * 1982 – Harold M. Weintraub
 * 1983 – Richard Axel
 * 1984 – David V. Goeddel
 * 1985 – Gerald M. Rubin
 * 1986 – James E. Rothman
 * 1987 – Jacqueline K. Barton
 * 1988 – Peter Walter
 * 1989 – Michael M. Cox
 * 1990 – George L. McLendon
 * 1991 – Peter G. Schultz
 * 1992 – William DeGrado
 * 1993 – Stuart L. Schreiber
 * 1994 – Peter S. Kim
 * 1995 – Jeremy Berg
 * 1996 – Gregory L. Verdine
 * 1997 – Alanna Schepartz
 * 1998 – John Kuriyan
 * 1999 – Chaitan Khosla
 * 2000 – Xiaodong Wang
 * 2001 – Jennifer Doudna
 * 2002 – Kevan M. Shokat
 * 2003 – Andreas Matouschek
 * 2004 – Benjamin Cravatt III
 * 2005 – Dewey G. McCafferty
 * 2006 – Linda Hsieh-Wilson
 * 2007 – Anna K. Mapp
 * 2008 – Paul J. Hergenrother
 * 2009 – Scott K. Silverman
 * 2010 – Alice Y. Ting
 * 2011 – Nathanael Gray
 * 2012 – Christopher J. Chang
 * 2013 – Matthew D. Disney
 * 2014 – Yi Tang (biochemist)
 * 2015 – Minkui Luo
 * 2016 – Elizabeth Nolan
 * 2017 – Howard C. Hang
 * 2018 – Bradley L. Pentelute
 * 2019 – Neal Devaraj
 * 2020 – Yimon Aye
 * 2021 – Jordan L. Meier
 * 2022 – Lingyin Li
 * 2023 – Polly Fordyce
 * 2024 – Joseph Cotruvo, Jr.