The Massry Prize was established in 1996, and was administered by the Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation until 2019. The Prize, of $40,000 and the Massry Lectureship, is bestowed upon scientists who have made substantial recent contributions in the
biomedical sciences.
Shaul G. Massry, M.D., who established the Massry Foundation, is
ProfessorEmeritus of
Medicine and
Physiology and
Biophysics at the
Keck School of Medicine,
University of Southern California. He served as Chief of its Division of
Nephrology from 1974 to 2000. In 2009 the KECK School of Medicine was asked to administer the Prize, and has done so since that time.[1] Ten winners of the Massry Prize have gone on to be awarded a
Nobel Prize.
2000
Leland H. Hartwell in the field of
Cell Cycle. Hartwell won the 2001
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine one year after he received the Massry Prize.
2004
Ada Yonath and Harry Nolla in the field of
Ribosomal Structure. Yonath won the 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry five years after she received the Massry Prize.
2010
Randy Schekman for his work regarding the molecular mechanism of defects in secretion that lead to human diseases of development such as
spina bifida.[2] He received 2013 Nobel in Physiology and Medicine.
2019
Ryszard Kole,
Stanley T. Crooke for their seminal work in the development of oligonucleotides targeting messenger RNA as novel therapeutics for a wide range human diseases.[9]