Awards & Winners

Robert G. Roeder

Date of Birth 03-June-1942
Place of Birth Boonville
(Warrick County, Indiana, Boon Township, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Roeder
Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003. He currently serves as Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University.

Awards by Robert G. Roeder

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert G. Roeder.

2003


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For pioneering studies on eukaryotic RNA polymerases and the general transcriptional machinery, which opened gene expression in animal cells to biochemical analysis.)

2000


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For their studies on the transcription machinery and elucidation of the basic mechanisms of transcription in eukaryotic cells.)

1999


Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
(For their pioneering work in understanding the transcription of genetic material into messenger RNA\u2014one of the most fundamental and critical processes in the life of all cells.)

1986


NAS Award in Molecular Biology
(For his pioneering studies of eukaryotic RNA polymerases and the factors that regulate their activity.)