The Robert J. And Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Awards were awarded annually for distinguished accomplishment in areas of investigation that included neuropsychiatry, cardiovascular disease, and cancer research. The program ran from 1987 to 2013. Each area of research was allocated US$50,000 to award to its winners.

History of the award

The Pasarow Foundation was created in 1987 by Mr. and Mrs. Pasarow of Beverly Hills, California, to stimulate medical and scientific research. Robert Pasarow was the founder and former president/CEO/chairman of the board of CHB Foods, Inc. The Pasarows established the Claire and Robert J. Pasarow Cancer Laboratory at the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at the University of Southern California as well as the Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. Robert J. Pasarow, now deceased, was the founding president and chairman of the foundation and Claire Pasarow, also deceased, was the chief financial officer.

Nomination criteria

The principal criterion for nomination was evidence of extraordinary accomplishment in medical science.

Nominators provided a one-page letter of intent stating the rationale for the nomination and a copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae and bibliography in two-page NIH format. Applications were reviewed by the board of directors in consultation with various medical scholars.

Past winners

Year Cancer Award Cardiovascular Award Neuropsychiatry Award 1987 Peter K. Vogt, Ph.D. University Of Southern California M.D., Washington University School of Medicine Nancy S. Wexler 1988 Irving Weissman, M.D., Stanford University Harvey Feigenbaum, M.D., Indiana University Eric Kandel 1989 George F. Vande Woude, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute , M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University Floyd Bloom 1990 Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation , M.D., University of Maryland Solomon H. Snyder 1991 Harold M. Weintraub, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Research Center , Ph.D. & Christine E. Seidman, M.D., Harvard Medical School Michael E. Phelps 1992 Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies , M.D., UCLA School of Medicine Patricia Goldman-Rakic 1993 Stanley J. Korsmeyer, M.D., Washington University in St. Louis Philip Majerus, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine Huda Akil and Stanley Watson 1994 Carlo M. Croce, M.D., Jefferson Cancer Center Jan L. Breslow, M.D., Rockefeller University Arvid Carlsson, Philip Seeman 1995 Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center Kenneth R. Chien, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Stanley Prusiner 1996 Robert A. Weinberg, M.D., Whitehead Institute , Jr., M.D., Harvard University Joseph T. Coyle 1997 Eric S. Lander, DPhil, MIT Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center Eric J. Nestler 1998 Paul L. Modrich, Ph.D., Duke University , M.D., University of Utah Fred Gage 1999 Anthony Fauci, M.D., National Institutes of Health Eric N. Olson, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center Michael I. Posner and Marcus Raichle 2000 Alexander J. Varshavsky, Ph.D., California Institute of TechnologyRichard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine Pasko Rakic 2001 Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., Harvard University Robert Lefkowitz, M.D., Duke University Hospital Seymour Benzer 2002 Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D., Stanford University , M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco Tomas Hökfelt 2003 Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco Judah Folkman, M.D. Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital Thomas Jessell 2004 Frederick Alt, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Barry S. Coller, M.D, Rockefeller University Judith L. Rapoport 2005 Bert W. O'Malley, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine Bruce McEwen 2006 Tony Hunter, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies"Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research", Salk Institute for Biological Studies , M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Huda Zoghbi 2007 Bert Vogelstein, M.D., Johns Hopkins University Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aaron T. Beck 2008 Not awarded 2009 Not awarded 2010 Inder M. Verma, Ph.D., Salk Institute, Brian J. Druker, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University , M.D.,University of Michigan Medical School Jean-Pierre Changeux 2011 Angela H. Brodie, Lewis C. Cantley, Joan A. SteitzJeffrey M. Friedman, Andrew Marks. Gerald ReavenRobert Malenka, Roger Nicoll, Charles F. Stevens 2012 David M. Livingston, Joan Massagué, Antonio M. Gotto, , Peter J Ratcliffe FRS, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of OxfordVirginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Christine Petit, John Q. Trojanowski 2013 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Rockefeller University; Richard Peto, University of Oxford; Matthew P. Scott, Ph.D., Stanford University , M.D., Johns Hopkins University; , Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; Helen Hobbs, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University; Helen S. Mayberg, M.D., Emory University; Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Stanford University

See also

List of medicine awards

References