Recipients and Award Lectures

Recipients of the award present an Excellence in Science Award Lecture at a scientific meeting of her choice in the award year. At the time of the lecture, a unrestricted research grant in the amounts of $10,000 for Lifetime Achievement, $5,000 for Mid-Career Investigator, and $5,000 for Early-Career Investigator is presented by a representative of the FASEB. The awards also cover travel expenses (per guidelines), complimentary registration at the meeting, and a plaque in recognition of the award.

Past recipients of FASEB's Excellence in Science Award include:

2020	Lifetime Achievement
	Brigid L. M. Hogan, PhD, FRS - Duke University Medical Center SDB Member
	Mid-Career Investigator
	Aviv Regev, PhD - Broad Institute of Massachusetts of Technology (MIT) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute AAI, ASBMB, and ASHG Member
	Early-Career Investigator
	Karen A. Schindler, PhD - Rutgers SSR Member
2019	Barbara B. Kahn, MD - Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ASBMB, ASCI and Endocrine Society Member Lecture Title: De novo lipogenesis in adipocytes results in the productionof structurally novel signaling lipids with beneficial metabolic and anti-inflammatory effects Location: Experimental Biology 2019 Orlando, FL Presented April 8, 2019
2018	Lynne Maquat, PhD – University of Rochester Medical Center ASBMB Member Lecture Title: Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and human disease: Genome guardian and executor Location: Experimental Biology 2018 San Diego, CA Presented April 22, 2018
2017	Diane Mathis, PhD – Harvard Medical School AAI Member Lecture Title: Treg Flavors Location: Immunology 2017 - The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists Washington, DC Presented May 15, 2017
2016	Bonnie L. Bassler, PhD – Princeton University ASBMB Member Lecture Title: Quorum Sensing And Its Control Location: Experimental Biology 2016 in San Diego, CA Presented April 3, 2016
2015	Diane E. Griffin, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine AAI Member Lecture Title: Immune-mediated clearance of acute viral infections: How effective is it? Location: Immunology 2015 - The Annual Meeting of The American Association of Immunologists New Orleans, LA Presented May 11, 2015
2014	Kathryn V. Anderson, PhD – Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY SDB Member Lecture Title: Cilia in the Mouse Embryo Location: 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology University of Washington Seattle, WA Presented July 20, 2014
2013	Terry Orr-Weaver, PhD – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA GSA Member Lecture Title: Diamonds in the Rough: finding Paradigms in Drosophila Developmental Strategies Location: 54th Annual Drosophila Research Conference Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, D.C. Presented April 3, 2013
2012	Susan R. Wessler, PhD – University of California, Riverside, CA GSA Member Lecture Title: Success Strategies of a Transposable Element Rapidly Diversifying the Rice Genome Location: FASEBBig Sky Montana Science Research Conference Conference Title: "Mobile DNA in Mammalian Genomes" Presented June 11, 2013
2011	Gail R. Martin, PhD – University of California, San Francisco, CA Lecture Title: The Role of FGF Signaling in Vertebrate Organogenesis Location: Chicago, IL Presented July 24, 2011
2010	Susan S. Taylor, PhD – University of California, San Diego, CA Lecture Title: Dynamics of PKA Signaling Location: Anaheim, CA Presented April 27, 2010
2009	Susan L. Lindquist, PhD – Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA Lecture Title: The Surprising and Multifaceted Role of Protein Folding on Biological Systems Location: New Orleans, LA Presented April 21, 2009

For other winners, please see our complete listing of all FASEB Excellence in Science Award Recipients (1989 to present).

FASEB acknowledges Lilly USA, LLC as the 1989-2010 and 2012-2014 sponsor of the FASEB Excellence in Science Award.