Gates received the Anisfield-Wolf award for the Schomburg Library of Women Writers in 1989. He has co-hosted a PBS TV series called "Find Your Roots" with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. since 2012. The series aims to help viewers learn about their ancestry through DNA testing. In 2014, he became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize was awarded to him for his work on genomics and disease prevention via genetic research. He also won the Lasker Award from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1993 for his work in medical genetics. Gates received his B.A. from Harvard University and M.D. from the Harvard Medical School. After completing an internship and residency at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, he went on to establish his own practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently the Frederick Douglass Family Professor of Genomics, History, and Public Policy at Princeton University. His wife Susan Mallet Gates is also an academic. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College and Ph. D. from Harvard University. She is a professor of history at Princeton University and director of its Program in Science, Technology and Society.