Sydney Brenner - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	13-January-1927
Place of Birth	Germiston (South Africa)
Nationality	United Kingdom, South Africa
Also know as	Dr. Sydney Brenner
Profession	Scientist
Sydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council Unit in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, U.S..

Awards by Sydney Brenner

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sydney Brenner.

2002

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death)

2000

Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award	(For 50 years of brilliant creativity in biomedical science\u2014exemplified by his legendary work on the genetic code; his daring introduction of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a system for tracing the birth and death of every cell in a living animal; his rational voice in the debate on recombinant DNA; and his trenchant wit.)

1991

Copley Medal	(In recognition of his many contributions to molecular genetics and developmental biology, and his recent role in the Human Genome mapping project.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award	(In recognition of his highly original and conceptual contributions to molecular biology, and to the understanding of how genetic information is read and translated.)

1978

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(In recognition of his highly original and conceptual contributions to molecular biology, and to the understanding of how genetic information is read and translated.)

1971

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For their brilliant contribution to molecular genetics.)

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