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Nobel Prizes for HFSP Awardees

 

Since the beginning of the Program in 1989, 28 HFSP awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. The prizes include Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry and Physics. These awards testify to the high quality of HFSP's selection process and to the breadth of its scientific scope.

 

Year of HFSP Award Nobel Prize
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard 1993 1995 (Physiology or Medicine)
Rolf Zinkernagel 1994 1996 (Physiology or Medicine)
Stanley Prusiner 1994 1997 (Physiology or Medicine)
John E. Walker 1996 1997 (Chemistry)
Steven Chu 1993 1997 (Physics)
Paul Nurse 1994 2001 (Physiology or Medicine)
Tim Hunt 1992/1997 2001 (Physiology or Medicine)
John E. Sulston 1991 2002 (Physiology or Medicine)
Peter Agre 2000 2003 (Chemistry)
Linda Buck 1995 2004 (Physiology or Medicine)
Avram Hershko 1998 2004 (Chemistry)
Roger Kornberg 1990/1993/1997/2000 2006 (Chemistry)
Roger Tsien 1995 2008 (Chemistry)
Jack Szostak 2001 2009 (Physiology or Medicine)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 2000/2009 2009 (Chemistry)
Ada Yonath 2003 2009 (Chemistry)
Jules Hoffmann 1995 2011 (Physiology or Medicine)
Ralph M. Steinman 1996/2006 2011 (Physiology or Medicine)
James E. Rothman 1990/1994/2005 2013 (Physiology or Medicine)
Randy W. Schekman 1991/1995 2013 (Physiology or Medicine)
Thomas C. Südhof 1995 2013 (Physiology or Medicine)
Martin Karplus 2005 2013 (Chemistry)
Michael Levitt 2008 2013 (Chemistry)
John O'Keefe 1994 2014 (Physiology or Medicine)
Stefan W. Hell  2010 2014 (Chemistry)
Aziz Sancar 1992 2015 (Chemistry)
Jeffrey C. Hall 1991/2000 2017 (Physiology or Medicine)
Tasuku Honjo 1990 2018 (Physiology or Medicine)
Moungi Bawendi 2007 2023 (Chemistry)