Awards & Winners

Clay Armstrong

Clay Margarave Armstrong is an American physiologist and a former student of Dr. Andrew Fielding Huxley. He is currently emeritus professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Armstrong was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1996, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1999. Armstrong was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. He won the 2001 Gairdner International Award. Armstrong is married to noted scientist Clara Franzini-Armstrong.

Awards by Clay Armstrong

Check all the awards nominated and won by Clay Armstrong.

2001


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the elucidation of the mechanism of action and molecular structure of cation channels.)

1999


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For elucidating the functional and structural architecture of ion channel proteins, which govern the electrical potential of membranes throughout nature, thereby generating nerve impulses and controlling muscle contraction, cardiac rhythm, and hormone secretion.)