Awards & Winners

Michael Sheetz

Michael Patrick Sheetz is a cell biologist at Columbia University, and a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore. He pioneered mechanobiology and biomechanics. In 1968, Sheetz earned bachelor's degree at Albion College, and in 1972 get his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. In 1985 he became a professor of cell biology and physiology at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1990 he is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Cell Biology at Columbia University, New York.

Awards by Michael Sheetz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Sheetz.

2013


Massry Prize
(For their work defining molecular mechanisms of intracellular motility.)

2012


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For discoveries concerning cytoskeletal motor proteins, machines that move cargoes within cells, contract muscles, and enable cell movements.)