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    Prof. Mary-Claire King

    Prof. Mary-Claire King

    FUTURE: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

    Mary-Claire King, PhD, is American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Medical Genetics) and the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle.

    Prof. King is a molecular geneticist and a world leader in human genetics. She has made major contributions to the study of the molecular causes of common complex human disease. Her seminal finding was the demonstration of inherited predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer as the result of mutations in a single gene, which she named BRCA1.

    This game-changing discovery led to the understanding of hereditary cancer predisposition and revolutionized clinical approaches to screening for inherited cancer risk, to individualizing interventions, and to tailoring rational therapy.
    Prof. King’s research interests also include the genetic bases of schizophrenia, the genetic causes of congenital disorders in children, and human evolution. She also pioneered the use of DNA sequencing for human rights investigations.

    Prof. King has received honorary degrees from some of the world’s most prominent institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and Tel Aviv Universities.

    Among her honors, Prof. King received the Peter Gruber Foundation Genetics Prize in 2004, the AH Heineken Prize for Medicine from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, the Lasker Foundation Special Achievement Award for Medical Research in 2014, and the United States National Medal of Science in 2016.

    Prof. King is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society, and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences. She served on the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences and on multiple committees and councils for the National Institutes for Health.

    OTHER PREVIOUS LAUREATES

    Prof. Bert Vogelstein
    Prof. Bert Vogelstein
    2018

    Future: Personalized Medicine

    Prof. Bert Vogelstein is a Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

    Prof. Carlo Croce
    Prof. Carlo Croce
    2018

    Future: Personalized Medicine

    Prof. Carlo M. Croce is an Italian-American molecular geneticist and professor of medicine at Ohio State University.

    Baroness Mary Warnock (1924 - 2019)
    Baroness Mary Warnock (1924 - 2019)
    2018

    Present: Bioethics

    Baroness Mary Warnock was an English philosopher of morality, education and mind.

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