Lasker Award
American medical science award
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| 2025 | Jumper received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. |
| 2025 | Featured on one of five covers of Time 100 most influential people list. |
| 2025 | Inducted into the Ukie Hall of Fame, recognizing his significant contributions to the gaming and technology industry. |
| 2024 | Knighted for services to Artificial Intelligence. |
| 2024 | Received honorary degree from University of Oxford |
| 2024 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Demis Hassabis for groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AlphaFold. |
| 2024 | Knighted as a Bachelor for 'services to artificial intelligence', officially recognized at the national level for his technological advancements. |
| 2024 | Received an Honorary Go rank of 9-dan from the Japan Go Association, recognizing his contributions through AlphaGo. |
| 2024 | Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim awarded Lasker Public Service Award for innovations in HIV prevention, treatment, and advocacy |
| 2024 | Joel Habener, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, and Svetlana Mojsov jointly awarded Lasker Clinical Award for GLP-1-based therapy for obesity |
| 2024 | Zhijian Chen awarded Lasker Basic Award for discovering the cGAS enzyme that senses self and foreign DNA |
| 2024 | Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry, highlighting his groundbreaking contributions to scientific research. |
| 2024 | Jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John M. Jumper for AI research contributions in protein structure prediction. |
| 2024 | Demis Hassabis is the main subject of the documentary 'The Thinking Game', which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. |
| 2024 | Knighted for services to AI. |
| June 2024 |
Barbara McClintock
Lee B. Kass published the most recent biography of Barbara McClintock's life and work.
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| May 2024 |
Barbara McClintock
A plant species, Stellaria mcclintockiae, was named in her honor.
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| 2023 | Jumper received the Canada Gairdner International Award for his contributions to protein structure prediction. |
| 2023 | Jumper was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. |
| 2023 | Jumper was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, which accurately predicts protein structures. |
| 2023 | Piet Borst awarded Lasker Special Achievement Award for a scientific career spanning 50 years, mentorship, and leadership |
| 2023 | Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper awarded Lasker Basic Award for creating AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence program for protein structure prediction |
| 2023 | James G. Fujimoto, David Huang, and Eric A. Swanson awarded Lasker Clinical Award for inventing optical coherence tomography |
| 2023 | Won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, a revolutionary AI system that accurately predicts protein structures. |
| 2023 | Hassabis signs a statement declaring that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, highlighting his ongoing commitment to AI safety research. |
| February 15 2023 |
Paul Berg
Paul Berg passed away at the age of 96, marking the end of a significant career in biochemistry and molecular biology.
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| 2022 | Jumper received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his work on protein structure prediction. |
| 2022 |
Barbara McClintock
A 103,835 square-foot residence hall at Cornell University was named in honor of Barbara McClintock.
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| 2022 | Received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, shared with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun. |
| 2021 | Recognized by Nature as one of the ten 'people who mattered' in science in Nature's annual Natures 10 listing. |
| 2021 | Jumper was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Biology and Biomedicine. |
| 2021 | Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by the University of Innsbruck. |
| 2021 | DeepMind used AlphaFold 2 to fold all 200 million known proteins and made the system and protein structures freely available through the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, developed in collaboration with EMBL-EBI. |
| 2020 | Received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala. |
| November 2020 | AlphaFold, led by John M. Jumper, won the 14th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, outperforming other algorithms by scoring above 90 for around two-thirds of the proteins in the global distance test. |
| November 2020 | DeepMind announced AlphaFold 2, which achieved a median global distance test (GDT) score of 87.0, significantly improving upon the 2018 results and making protein structure prediction competitive with experimental methods. |
| June 5 2020 |
A. Dale Kaiser
A. Dale Kaiser passed away, concluding a distinguished career in molecular biology and developmental biology.
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| 2018 | Received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern. |
| 2018 | Became an Honorary Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. |
| 2018 | Awarded the Shambaugh Prize by Corlas. |
| December 2018 | AlphaFold won the 13th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP), successfully predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins, which Hassabis described as a 'lighthouse project'. |
| May 2018 | Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a prestigious recognition of his scientific achievements. |
| March 2018 |
Barbara McClintock
Judith Pratt's play 'MAIZE' was produced in Ithaca, NY, at Cornell University.
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| 2017 | Received the Ring of Honour from the District of Garbsen. |
| 2017 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and listed in Time 100 most influential people. |
| 2017 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours for 'services to Science and Technology'. |
| 2016 | Recognized as the Financial Times Digital Entrepreneur of the Year. |
| 2016 | Appointed as a Business Advisor by the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce. |
| 2016 | Awarded the Technology Prize by the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Munich. |
| 2016 | DeepMind began focusing its artificial intelligence efforts on protein folding, addressing a 50-year scientific challenge of predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences. |
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