Warren Alpert Foundation Prize

Columns: Year | Recipient ( s ) | Citation | Nationality
2019 | Ed Boyden , Karl Deisseroth , Peter Hegemann , Gero Miesenböck | For pioneering work in the field of optogenetics , a revolutionary technique that uses light and genetic modification to control the activity of cells in the brain | United States Germany Austria | 2018 | Francis Collins , Paul Negulescu , Bonnie Ramsey , Lap-Chee Tsui , Michael Welsh | For identifying faulty gene behind devastating disease , development of precision-targeted therapies | United States China | 2017 | Arlene Sharpe , Harvard Medical School , Gordon Freeman , Dana Farber Cancer Institute , Lieping Chen , Yale University , James P. Allison , University of Texas M.D . Anderson Cancer Center , Tasuku Honjo , Kyoto University | For their collective contributions to the pre-clinical foundation and development of immune checkpoint blockade , a novel form of cancer therapy that has transformed the landscape of cancer treatment | United States Japan | 2016 | Rodolphe Barrangou , North Carolina State University , Philippe Horvath , DuPont , Jennifer Doudna , University of California , Berkeley , Emmanuelle Charpentier , Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and Umeå University , Virginijus Šikšnys , Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology | For their remarkable contributions to the understanding of the CRISPR bacterial defense system and the revolutionary discovery that it can be adapted for genome editing | France United States Lithuania | 2015 | Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig and Victor Nussenzweig , NYU Langone Medical Center , Tu Youyou of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences , Beijing | For their pioneering discoveries in chemistry and parasitology , and their personal commitment to translating these discoveries into effective chemotherapeutic and vaccine-based approaches to controlling malaria | United States China | 2014 | Dr. Oleh Hornykiewicz , Medical University of Vienna , Roger A. Nicoll , University of California , San Francisco , Dr. Solomon H. Snyder , Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | For seminal contributions to our understanding of neurotransmission and neurodegeneration | Austria United States | 2013 | Dr. David Botstein , Princeton University , Ronald W. Davis , Stanford University School of Medicine , and Dr. David Hogness , Stanford University School of Medicine | For their seminal contributions to the concepts and methods of creating a genetic map in the human , and of positional cloning , leading to the identification of thousands of human disease genes and ushering in the era of human genetics | United States

Example questions:
Which of the 2014 recipients of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize began his collegiate career in Appleton , Wisconsin ? | How many of the scientists receiving the 2016 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize were Americans ? | How is the disease researched for the 2003 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize diagnosed ? | The college rcognized for the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in 2004 was originally part of what university ?

Answers:
Roger A. Nicoll | 2 | blood testing | Yeshiva University