Passano Foundation

The Passano Foundation, established in 1945, provides an annual award to a research scientist whose work – done in the United States – is thought to have immediate practical benefits. Many Passano laureates have subsequently won the Nobel Prize.

Passano Laureates

 * 2024 K. Christopher Garcia
 * 2023 Se-Jin Lee
 * 2022 Duojia Pan
 * 2021 Alfred Goldberg
 * 2020 David Eisenberg
 * 2019 Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth
 * 2018 Carl June, Michel Sadelain
 * 2017 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
 * 2016 Jonathan C. Cohen, Helen Hobbs
 * 2015 James P. Allison (2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 2014 Jeffrey I. Gordon
 * 2013 Rudolf Jaenisch
 * 2012 Eric N. Olson
 * 2011 Elaine Fuchs
 * 2010 David Julius (2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 2009 Irving Weissman
 * 2008 Thomas Südhof (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 2007 Joan Massagué Solé
 * 2006 Napoleone Ferrara
 * 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
 * 2003 Andrew Z. Fire (2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 2002 Alexander Rich
 * 2001 Seymour Benzer
 * 2000 Giuseppe Attardi, Douglas C. Wallace
 * 1999 Elizabeth Blackburn (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Carol W. Greider (2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1998 H. Robert Horvitz (2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1997 James E. Darnell, Jr.
 * 1996 Leland H. Hartwell (2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1995 Robert G. Roeder, Robert Tjian
 * 1994 Bert Vogelstein
 * 1993 Jack L. Strominger, Don Craig Wiley
 * 1992 Charles Yanofsky
 * 1991 William S. Sly, Stuart Kornfeld
 * 1990 Alfred Goodman Gilman (1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1989 Victor Almon McKusick
 * 1988 Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Edmond Henri Fischer (1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1987 Irwin Fridovich
 * 1986 Albert L. Lehninger, Eugene P. Kennedy
 * 1985 Howard Green
 * 1984 Peter Nowell
 * 1983 John Michael Bishop (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Harold Elliot Varmus (1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
 * 1981 Hugh McDevitt
 * 1980 Seymour S. Kety
 * 1979 Donald F. Steiner
 * 1978 Michael Stuart Brown (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Joseph L. Goldstein (1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1977 Curt P. Richter
 * 1976 Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1975 Henry G. Kunkel
 * 1974 Seymour S. Cohen, Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1973 Roger Sperry (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1972 Kimishige Ishizaka, Teruko Ishizaka
 * 1971 Stephen W. Kuffler
 * 1970 Paul Zamecnik
 * 1969 George Herbert Hitchings (1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1968 John Eager Howard (physician)
 * 1967 Irvine Page
 * 1966 John T. Edsall
 * 1965 Charles Brenton Huggins (1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1964 Keith R. Porter, George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1963 Horace Winchell Magoun
 * 1962 Albert Hewett Coons
 * 1961 Owen Harding Wangensteen
 * 1960 René Dubos
 * 1959 Stanhope Bayne-Jones
 * 1958 George W. Corner
 * 1957 William M. Clark
 * 1956 George Nicolas Papanicolaou
 * 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
 * 1954 Homer Smith
 * 1953 John Franklin Enders (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1952 Herbert M. Evans
 * 1951 Philip Levine, Alexander Solomon Wiener
 * 1950 Edward Calvin Kendall (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Philip Showalter Hench (1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1949 Oswald Avery
 * 1948 Alfred Blalock, Helen Brooke Taussig
 * 1947 Selman Abraham Waksman (1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1946 Ernest W. Goodpasture
 * 1945 Edwin J. Cohn

Young Scientist Award

 * 1992 Tom Curran
 * 1991 Roger Tsien (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
 * 1990 Matthew P. Scott
 * 1989 Louis M. Kunkel
 * 1988 Peter Walter
 * 1987 Jeremy Nathans
 * 1986 James Rothman (2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1985 Mark M. Davis
 * 1984 Thomas R. Cech (1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
 * 1983 Gerald M. Rubin, Allan C. Spradling
 * 1982 Roger D. Kornberg (2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
 * 1981 William A. Catterall, Joel M. Moss
 * 1979 Richard Axel (2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1978 Robert Lefkowitz (2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
 * 1977 Eric A. Jaffe
 * 1976 Ralph A. Bradshaw
 * 1975 Joan A. Steitz