Ronald D. Guttmann MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1936 and received his post secondary school education at the University of Minnesota, receiving a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in 1958, and a B.S. and M.D. degree in 1961.
 He did his Medical Internship at the University of California San Francisco, military service in the USNR at the Tissue Bank , National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Medical Residency on the II & IV (Harvard) Medical Service at Boston City Hospital, and a Research & Clinical Fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital(now Brigham & Women’s Hospital) and Harvard Medical School.
 In 1969, he was appointed Associate in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and permanently moved to Montreal, Canada in 1970 to become Director of the Transplantation Service at the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University Clinic and Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University Faculty of Medicine.
 During his academic career he directed an active basic and clinical research laboratory program focused on transplantation immunobiology, immunogenetics, immunosuppression, and long term-complications of transplant patients.
 He also developed an interest in social and ethical issues of transplantation, organ shortage, and human rights abuses.
David Rosenblatt, a Canadian Medical Geneticist, Paediatrician is a professor in the Departments of Human Genetics, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Biology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he was the Chairman of Department of Human Genetics from 2001-2013.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Scriver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951 and from the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in 1955.
 He was appointed to the Department of Paediatrics at McGill and as a Markle scholar in 1961, becoming a professor in pediatrics in 1969.
 He was the Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Columbia University from 1979 to 1980.
 He is the Alva professor Emeritus of Human Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University.
 In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research.
David M. Gilbert is J. Herbert Taylor Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biological Science and Co-founder and Associate Director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Florida State University.
 Gilbert’s work focuses on the mechanisms regulating DNA replication during the cell cycle and the relationship between DNA replication and structural and functional organization of chromosomes, most recently during differentiation in human and mouse embryonic stem cells and in pediatric leukemia.
 Gilbert received his BA degrees in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego and his PhD in Genetics from Stanford University.
 He did two post-doctoral training periods, first as an EMBO Fellow with Pierre Chambon in Strasbourg, France, studying transcriptional control, and second as a Roche Fellow with Melvin DePamphilis studying replication origin recognition.
 He joined the faculty at State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University in 1994 and was appointed full professor in 2003.
 In 2006, he moved to Florida State University for his current endowed chair position and was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008 and then elected as a council delegate of the AAAS in 2010, as well as to the American Society of Hematology in 2013 and the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2014.
 Gilbert’s other awards include the American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award (2000), the SUNY President’s Young Investigator Award (2002), the NIH Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (2004) Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor (2015) and the Pfeiffer Endowed Professorship for Cancer Research (2015).
 He is a principal investigator in the NIH Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium and is a board member of the Southeast Stem Cell Consortium (SESCC).
 He has served on American Cancer Society (1996–2004) and NIH study sections (1997–present) and is an editorial member of the Epigenetics Society and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cell Biology.
 He also maintains ReplicationDomain, a free online database resource for storing, sharing and visualizing DNA replication timing and other chromosome mapping data.
Karen B. Avraham (born in 1962) is an American-Israeli human geneticist.
 She is a full professor at Tel Aviv University, and the current Vice Dean of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine.
 Her laboratory is in the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry.
 She is currently President of the Israel Society for Auditory Research (ISAR), President of the Federation of Israel Societies for Experimental Biology (FISEB/ILANIT, 2017) and a former board member of the I-CORE: Gene Regulation in Complex Human Disease.
 Avraham is a council member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO, 2017), Chair of the Scientific Committee of Agir Pour L’Audition (Acting for Hearing, 2017) in France, Council member of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO, 2017), an elected member of the International Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS), and past President of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) and the Genetic Society of Israel (GSI).
 She is an editor of "Mammalian Genome" (2017), section editor of the "European Journal of Human Genetics" (2017), and on the advisory editorial board of "EMBO Molecular Medicine".
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City, often cited as one of the world's most prestigious universities.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636, whose history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities.
The Faculty of Medicine is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University.
 It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the College's first faculty; it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada.
 The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833.
 His dissertation, ""Medical inaugural dissertation on Cynanche trachealis"" can be found in the McGill Library institutional repository, eScholarship@McGill.
William Jackson (Jack) Schull (17 March 1922 – 20 June 2017) was an American geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
 He worked for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan, was one of the founding members of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, and was the founding director of the Center for Demographic and Population Genetics at the University of Texas at Houston.
 His scientific contributions include studies on the effects of ionizing radiation on human health, the role of heredity and the interaction of heredity and environment in the etiology of chronic disease, the effects of inbreeding in human populations, the mechanisms of adaptations to hypoxic conditions, and the genetic epidemiology of populations burdened by chronic diseases associated with low socio-economic status.
Weill Cornell Medicine is the biomedical research unit and medical school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university.
 The medical college is located at 1300 York Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, along with the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Question: What, established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City, was the Alva professor Emeritus of Human Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University awarded the prestigious Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research?
Answer: Columbia University