Awards & Winners

Maynard Olson

Maynard V. Olson is professor of genome sciences and medicine at the University of Washington. He is a specialist in the genetics of cystic fibrosis, and one of the founders of the Human Genome Project. Originally a chemist, he received his undergraduate degree from California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Stanford University in 1970. From 1970-75, he was at Dartmouth College, and then became a molecular biologist, first at the University of Washington, then at Washington University in St. Louis, and, from 1992 on, again at the University of Washington.

Awards by Maynard Olson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Maynard Olson.

2002


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his original concepts, and for technological and experimental innovations that were critical for the sequencing of the mammalian genomes.)