Awards & Winners

Richard Scheller

Date of Birth 30-October-1953
Place of Birth Milwaukee
(Wisconsin, United States of America, Area code 414)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Richard H. Scheller, Ph. D., Richard H Scheller
Profession Teacher
Richard H. Scheller is the Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a Professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 and joined Genentech. He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989, the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1993 and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1997, won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas C. Südhof and James E. Rothman, and won the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Thomas Sudhof. He was also given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Science.

Awards by Richard Scheller

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Scheller.

2013


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For discoveries concerning the molecular machinery and regulatory mechanism that underlie the rapid release of neurotransmitters.)

2010


Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
(for their work to reveal the precise molecular basis of the transfer of signals between nerve cells in the brain.)

1997


NAS Award in Molecular Biology
(For their performance of elegant experiments to resolve the molecular components responsible for controlling neurotransmitter vesicle release and chemical communication within the nervous system.)