Awards & Winners

John Gurdon

Date of Birth 02-October-1933
Place of Birth United Kingdom
(Eurasia, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Western Europe, Europe, Littlehampton Lifeboat Station)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as J. B. Gurdon
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, FRS, FMedSci, is an English developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.

Awards by John Gurdon

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Gurdon.

2012


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent)

2009


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For the discoveries concerning nuclear reprogramming, the process that instructs specialized adult cells to form early stem cells\u2014creating the potential to become any type of mature cell for experimental or therapeutic purposes.)

2003


Copley Medal
(For his unique range of groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of cell and developmental biology. He pioneered the concept that specialised cells are genetically equivalent and that they differ only in the genes they express not the genes they contain, a concept fundamental to modern biology.)

1989


Wolf Prize in Medicine
(For his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in the content of genetic material.)

1987


International Prize for Biology
(Developmental Biology)