ASHG Scientific Achievement Award

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The ASHG Scientific Achievement Award was established in 2001 and is presented annually by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics that have occurred in the last 10 years. [1]

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The award was formerly known as the Curt Stern Award, or the Stern Award, named in honor of Curt Stern (1902–1981), a pioneering human geneticist. [1] It was renamed in 2023 along with several other ASHG awards in a new organizational policy that removed individual's names from awards in favor of descriptive names. [2]

Award recipients

Source: American Society of Human Genetics

YearRecipient(s)
2001 Daniel Pinkel and Joe W. Gray
2002 James Lupski [3] [4]
2003 David Page [5]
2004 Neil J. Risch [6] [7]
2005 Patrick O. Brown [8] [9]
2006 Harry C. Dietz  [ de ] [10] [11]
2007 Jeffrey Murray [12]
2008 Evan E. Eichler
2009 David Haussler and Jim Kent [13]
2010 Vivian G. Cheung [14]
2011 David Altshuler [15] [16]
2012 Jay Shendure [17] [18]
2013 John V. Moran [19]
2014 Goncalo R. Abecasis & Mark J. Daly
2015 Leonid Kruglyak
2016 Brendan Lee
2017 Nicholas Katsanis
2018 Sekar Kathiresan
2019 Charles Rotimi & Sarah Tishkoff [20]
2020 Fowzan S. Alkuraya
2021 Emmanouil Dermitzakis [21]
2022 Heidi Rehm [22]
2023 Molly Przeworski [23]

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  22. ↑ Anderson, William (2022-07-20). "ASHG Honors Heidi Rehm, PhD, FACMG, with the 2022 Curt Stern Award". ASHG. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
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