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Richard Lounsbery Award
Summary
The Richard Lounsbery Award is given to American and French scientists, 45 years or younger, in recognition of "extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine."
The Award alternates between French and American scientists, and is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in alternating years to a scientist from the other country. The award is selected by a seven-member jury representing both the French and the US Academies. The recipient receives a $75,000 prize, funding to visit a lab or research institution in the awarding country, and an invitation to give the Lounsbery Lecture in the awarding country.
The Lounsbery Award was established in 1979 by Vera Lounsbery in memory of her husband, Richard Lounsbery, and is funded by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Richard and Vera met in Paris after World War I, and the couple divided their time between Paris and New York.
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2022 Claire Wyart, for her outstanding research on the sensory interface between the central nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid that controls our posture and movements.
2021 Feng Zhang, for his pioneering achievements in the field of genome editing, including the discovery of novel CRISPR systems and their development as molecular tools.
2020 Marie Manceau, for her work in developmental biology, in particular training and evolution of periodic patterns on the plumage of birds.
2019 Jay Shendure, for his pioneering work and leadership in the second wave of genomics that is transforming genetics and medicine. Through his development of exome sequencing and other novel technologies, he has defined new paradigms for implicating Mendelian disease genes, interpreting genetic variation, and single cell profiling of developmental lineages and gene regulation in whole organisms.
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