Awards & Winners

Roderick MacKinnon

Date of Birth 19-February-1956
Place of Birth Burlington
(United States of America, Massachusetts)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist
Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.

Awards by Roderick MacKinnon

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roderick MacKinnon.

2003


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

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.)