Lucille Shapiro - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	16-July-1940
Place of Birth	New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Lucy Shapiro
Profession	Professor
Lucy Shapiro is an American developmental biologist. She is a professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. In 2013, Dr. Shapiro was presented with the 2011 National Medal of Science. Dr. Shapiro has published a reflection on her early days in Brooklyn and on her life in science.

Awards by Lucille Shapiro

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lucille Shapiro.

2012

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

2011

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For the pioneering discovery that the bacterial cell is controlled by an integrated genetic circuit functioning in time and space that serves as a systems engineering paradigm underlying cell differentiation and ultimately the generation of diversity in all organisms.)

2009

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity.)

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