# 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.

## Selection of award winners
### 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 [de], 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 E. Howard [de]
* 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 [de]
* 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 [de]
* 1976 Ralph A. Bradshaw [de]
* 1975 Joan A. Steitz