Past Award Recipients

In January 2023, as part of its response to the Facing Our History – Building an Equitable Future initiative findings, ASHG suspended the use of individual names for all of its professional awards, pending review of any affiliation with eugenics or other harms. Until decisions are made about a naming policy and practice, ASHG’s professional awards have only descriptive titles. Awards granted prior to 2023 remain as they were named at the time, pending review and future decisions.

William Allan Award

1962: Newton E. Morton

1965: James V. Neel

1967: Vernon Ingram

1968: Harry Harris

1969: Jerome Lejeune

1970: Arno G. Motulsky

1973: Barton Childs

1974: Curt Stern

1975: Philip Levin & A. S. Wiener

1977: Victor A. McKusick

1978: Charles R. Scriver

1979: F. Clarke Fraser

1980: Walter F. Bodmer

1981: Patricia A. Jacobs

1982: Elizabeth Neufield

1983: Frank H. Ruddle

1984: Y. W. Kan

1985: Joseph Goldstein & Michael S. Brown

1986: Mary Lyon

1987: L. L. Cavalli-Sforza

1988: T. Caspersson

1989: David Botstein & Ray White

1990: Kary B. Mullis

1991: Janet D. Rowley & Alfred Knudson, Jr.

1992: Alec Jeffreys

1993: Antonio Cao & Michael Kaback

1994: Doug Wallace

1995: Kurt Hirschhorn

1996: Robert Elston

1997: Philip Leder

1998: Bert Vogelstein

1999: Stephen Warren

2002: Albert de la Chapelle

2003: David Weatherall

2004: Louis Kunkel

2005: Francis Collins

2006: Dorothy Warburton

2007: Arthur Beaudet

2008: Haig Kazazian

2009: Huntington F. Willard

2010: Jurg Ott [pdf]

2011: John M. Opitz [pdf]

2012: Uta Francke [pdf]

2013: Aravinda Chakravarti [pdf]

2014: Stuart H. Orkin [pdf]

2015: Kay Davies [pdf]

2016: James Gusella [pdf]

2017: Kári Stefánsson [pdf]

2018: Eric S. Lander [pdf]

2019: Stylianos E. Antonarakis [pdf]

2020: Mary-Claire King [pdf]

2021: C. Thomas Caskey [pdf]

2022: Sir Peter Donnelly [pdf]

Curt Stern Award

2001: Daniel Pinkel & Joe W. Gray

2002: James Lupski

2003: David Page

2004: Neil J. Risch

2005: Patrick O. Brown

2006: Hal Dietz

2007: Jeffrey Murray

2008: Evan Eichler

2009: David H. Haussler & James Kent

2010: Vivian G. Cheung

2011: David Altshuler

2012: Jay Shendure [pdf]

2013: John V. Moran [pdf]

2014: Gonçalo R. Abecasis [pdf] & Mark J. Daly [pdf]

2015: Leonid Kruglyak [pdf]

2016: Brendan Lee [pdf]

2017: Nicholas Katsanis [pdf]

2018: Sekar Kathiresan pdf

2019: Charles Rotimi & Sarah Tishkoff [pdf]

2020: Fowzan S. Alkuraya [pdf]

2021: Emmanouil Dermitzakis [pdf]

2022: Heidi Rehm [pdf]

Arno Motulsky-Barton Childs Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education

1995: Margaret Thompson

1996: Barton Childs

1997: Victor A. McKusick

1998: C. C. Li

1999: Arno Motulsky

2000: F. Clarke Fraser

2001: Charles R. Scriver

2002: Kurt Hirschhorn

2003: Joan Marks

2004: Robert Gorlin

2005:Joseph McInerney

2006: Roberta “Bonnie” Pagon

2007: Robert Elston

2008: John Carey, Lynn Jorde, Louisa Stark

2009: Bruce R. Korf

2010: Thomas D. Gelehrter

2011: Giovanni Romeo

2012: Alan Emery

2013: Jessica G. Davis

2014: Suzanne Cassidy

2015: Robert Nussbaum, Rod McInnes, Huntington Willard

2016: David Valle

2017: Dian Donnai

2018: Jan M. Friedman

2019: Jeffrey N. Weitzel & Kathleen Blazer

2020: Kenneth Lange

2021: Neil Lamb

2022: Maurice Godfrey

Advocacy Award

The ASHG Advocacy Award honors individuals or groups of individuals who have exhibited excellence and achievement in promoting the science of human genetics and its application for the common good.

2015: R. Rodney Howell

2016: Senator James Cowan, Bev Heim-Myers and CCGF

2017: Edward McCabe

2018: Mary-Claire King

2019: Rick Guidotti

2020: Janina Jeff

2021: Sharon Terry

2022: Meow-Keong Thong

Mentorship Award

2016: Elaine Zackai

2017: John Mulvihill

2018: Cecilia Lindgren

2019: Hal Dietz

2020: Josée Dupuis

2021: Alberto Santiago Cornier

2022: Cinnamon Bloss

Early-Career Award

The Early-Career Award recognizes scientists who are in the early stages of their careers as independent investigators.

2017: Daniel MacArthur

2018: Andrew Adey

2019: Stephen Montgomery

2020: Benjamin Neale

2021: Cristen Willer

2022: Eimear Kenny

McKusick Leadership Award

The Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award is presented on behalf of the Society to an individual whose professional achievements have fostered and enriched the development of various human genetics disciplines..

2006: David Rimoin

2007: Walter Nance

2008: Victor A. McKusick

2009: Arno G. Motulsky

2010: Charles J. Epstein

2011: Leon E. Rosenberg

2012: Francis Collins

2013: Kurt Hirschhorn, Rochelle Hirschhorn [pdf]

2014: David Valle [pdf]

2015: Charles Scriver [pdf]

2016: Stanley Gartler [pdf]

2017: Arthur Beaudet [pdf]

2018: James R. Lupski [pdf]

2019: Huda Zoghbi [pdf]

2020: Peter H. Byers [pdf]

2021: Wylie Burke [pdf]

2022: David Nelson [pdf]

Charles J. Epstein Trainee Research Awards

The Charles J. Epstein Trainee Research Awards honor excellence in research conducted by trainees through merit-based awards that recognize highly competitive abstracts submitted and presented at the ASHG Annual Meeting.

1995: F. Petrij/R.M. Plenge, Predoctoral clinical
C. Bonemann/E. Burright, Postdoctoral clinical
D. Eberhart, Predoctoral basic
J. K. Overturf, Postdoctoral basic

1996: Alex Nechiporuk, Predoctoral clinical
Nancy Braverman, Postdoctoral clinical
Neil Lamb/Haley Perlock, Predoctoral basic
Robert Montgomery, Postdoctoral basic

1997: Maria Lalioti, Predoctoral clinical
Nandita Quaderi, Postdoctoral clinical
Alexandre Alcais, Predoctoral basic
Rajendra Kumar-Singh, Postdoctoral basic

1998: Barbara A. Binzac, Predoctoral clinical
Jose Camacho, Postdoctoral clinical
Len Pennacchio, Predoctoral basic
John Moran, Postdoctoral basic

1999: I. Hedenfalk/D. Horsford/G. Pennarum, Predoctoral clinical
Lucas Bubendorf, Postdoctoral translational
Kara Manning, Predoctoral basic
Therese M. Tuohy, Postdoctoral Basic

2000: Swaroop Aradhya, Predoctoral clinical
Zayd Eldadah, Postdoctoral clinical
Eric Ostertag, Predoctoral Basic
James Sligh, Postdoctoral Basic
Joseph Hacia, Postdoctoral Translational

2001: J. M. Amos-Landgraf/H. Date, Predoctoral clinical
Min Fanga, Postdoctoral Clinical
Pamela Frischmeyer, Predoctoral Basic
Audrey Lynn, Postdoctoral Basic
Catia &reassi, Postdoctoral Translational

2002: Scott Houghtaling, Predoctoral clinical
Maran Huizing, Postdoctoral clinical
C. Dobson/D. Ng/A. Sharp, Predoctoral basic
Jeffrey Baily/Kara Koehler, Postdoctoral basic
Pia Huusko/Mihaela Stefan, Postdoctoral translational

2003: T. Zucchero/M. Mira, Predoctoral clinical
Sebastien Jacquemont, Postdoctoral clinical
Lilei Zhang, Predoctoral basic
Joshua Mendell, Postdoctoral basic
Lawrence Reiter, Postdoctoral translational

2004: Molly Sheridan, Predoctoral clinical
Yen-Pei Chang, Postdoctoral clinical
Ahmad Khalil, Predoctoral basic
Sara Rodriguez-Jato, Postdoctoral basic
Paul Gregorevic, Postdoctoral translational

2005: Alexandra Dumitrescu, Predoctoral clinical
Kym Boycott, Postdoctoral clinical
Nuo Yang, Predoctoral basic
Reid Alisch, Postdoctoral basic
Roger Davis, Predoctoral translational
Jennifer Habashi, Postdoctoral translational

2006: Brian Capell, Predoctoral clinical
Irfan Saadi, Postdoctoral clinical
Karen Thatcher, Predoctoral basic
Barbara Stranger, Postdoctoral basic
Jessica Young, Predoctoral translational
Andrew Sharp, Predoctoral translational
Norann Zaghloul, Postdoctoral translational

2007: Jain Mahim, Predoctoral Basic
Clement Chow, Predoctoral Translational
Graham Coop, Postdoctoral Basic
David Ng, Postdoctoral Basic
Marwan Tayeh, Postdoctoral Translational
Christian Windpassinger, Postdoctoral Clinical

2008: Yun Li, Predoctoral Basic
Randy Chandler, Predoctoral Translational
Sabino Benko, Predoctoral Clinical
Gulum Kosova, Predoctoral Clinical
Ayelet Erez, Postdoctoral Translational
Seongjin Seo, Postdoctoral Translational
Salil Lachke, Postdoctoral Clinical

2009: Katarzyna Bryc, Predoctoral Basic
Jefferson Doyle, Predoctoral Clinical
Karen M. Berry, Predoctoral Translational
Matthew E. Johnson, Postdoctoral Basic
Lisa M. Baye, Postdoctoral Translational
Christiane Zweier, Postdoctoral Clinical

2010: View 2010 Semifinalists
Lindsay Wallace, Predoctoral Basic
Krista Geister, Predoctoral Translational
Taiji Tsunemi, Postdoctoral Basic
Anthony Guerrerio, Postdoctoral Translational
Kristina Roberts, Postdoctoral Translational

2011: View 2011 Semifinalists
Elizabeth Gerber, Predoctoral
Nir Oksenberg, Predoctoral
Adrian Reich, Predoctoral
Megan Dennis, Postdoctoral
Jean-Baptiste Riviere, Postdoctoral
Christopher Vlangos, Postdoctoral

2012: View 2012 Semifinalists
Valerie Arboleda, pre-doc
Weston Powell, pre-doc
Matthew Snyder, pre-doc
Olivier Delaneau, post-doc
Alexander Doyle, post-doc
Brian O’Roak, post-doc

2013: View 2013 Semifinalists
Juan Francisco Calderon, pre-doc
Iain Mathieson, pre-doc
Andrew Stergachis, pre-doc
Anne-Karin Arndt, post-doc
Curtis French, post-doc
Shyam Gopalakrishnan, post-doc

2014: View 2014 Semifinalists
Ian Campbell, pre-doc
Masoud Zamani Esteki, pre-doc
Yih-Chii Hwang, pre-doc
Martijn van de Bunt, post-doc
Jennifer Gruhn, post-doc
Matthew Maurano, post-doc

2015: View 2015 Semifinalists
Richie Jeremian, pre-doc
Suhas Rao, pre-doc
Kaitlin Samocha, pre-doc
Stefan Barakat, post-doc
Alexander Gusev, post-doc
Hagen Tilgner, post-doc

2016: View 2016 Semifinalists
Besse Beryl Cummings, pre-doc
Kevin Galinsky, pre-doc
Molly Gasperini, pre-doc
Filomena Pirozzi, post-doc
Elizabeth Ruzzo, post-doc
Ryan Tewhey, post-doc

2017: View 2017 Semifinalists
Joana Loureiro, pre-doc
Joseph Shin, pre-doc
Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, pre-doc
Po-Ru Loh, post-doc
Navneet Kaur Matharu, post-doc
Satish Nandakumar, post-doc

2018: View 2018 Semifinalists
Ryan L. Collins, pre-doc
Amelia C. Joslin, pre-doc
Patrick J. Short, pre-doc
Konrad J. Karczewski, post-doc
Tarjinder Singh, post-doc
Dragana Vuckovic, post-doc

2019: View 2019 Semifinalists
Joseph Park, pre-doc
Katherine Rhodes, pre-doc
Manar Zaghlula, pre-doc
Diana Cousminer, post-doc
Linda Kachuri, post-doc
Chelsea Lowther, post-doc

2020: View 2020 Semifinalists
Eddie Cano Gamez, pre-doc
Soumya Kundu, pre-doc
Jose Uribe-Salazar, pre-doc
James Pirruccello, post-doc
Meredith Course, post-doc
David Blair, post-doc

2021: View 2021 Semifinalists
Andrea Wilderman, pre-doc
Omar El Garwany, pre-doc
Kathleen Reed, pre-doc
PamelaSara Head, post-doc
Tinashe Chikowore, post-doc
John Morris, post-doc

2022: View 2022 Semifinalists
Frederik Filip Vinggaard Staeger, pre-doc
Layla Siraj, pre-doc
Marianne Lemee, pre-doc
Hai Nguyen, post-doc
Yosuke Tanigawa, post-doc
Nathan Nakatsuka, post-doc

C.W. Cotterman Awards

Each year, the Cotterman Award is presented to trainee authors of two articles published in AJHG in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific contributions to the field of human genetics.

2001: Brian Jordan, Ramsey Saleem

2002: Harald Goring, Annachiara De Sandre-Giovannoli

2003: Lutz Froenicke, Sjoerd Repping

2004: Weimin Bi, Dana Crawford

2005: Eric Jorgenson, Mingyao Li

2006: Paul Scheet, Charles Krafchak

2007: Saima Riazuddin, Min Shi

2008: Gaofeng Wang, Karen Conneely

2009: Tao Yang, Bingshan Li

2010: Jimmy Z. Liu, Christiane Zweier

2011: Leslie S. Emery, Joshua M. Shulman

2012: Luca Pagani, Pengfei Liu

2013: Natalie Powers, Pier Palamara

2014: Jennifer R. Kulzer, Shurjo K. Sen

2015: Ronald Hause, Xin Li

2016: Gleb Kichaev, Tamara Roman

2017: Alicia Martin, Zachary Nevin

2018: Paul Hook, Taylor Mighell

2019: Sarah McClymont, Minal Caliskan

2020: Xiaowen Tian, Andrew Glazer

2021:Ian Arriaga-MacKenzie, Xiaoyan Jia

2022: Shawn Fayer, Samuel Smith

Resource Limited Awards

The Resource Limited Awards help defray the costs of airfare, hotel, meals and registration for the ASHG Annual Meeting.

2016:
Abu Rayyan, A.I.
Labib, R.M.
Bhattacharya, S.K.
Sudhakar, D.V.S.
Mukhopadhyay, I.
Bhatti, S.
Kohli, S.
Cutiongco-de la Paz, E.M.
Kar, A.
Ansar, M.

2017:
Arumugam, P.
Tumulak, M.R.
Palodhi, A.
Hebbar, M.
Sayed, I.S.M.
Manjegowda, D.S.
Naz, S.
Uddin, K.M.F.
Jaishankar, S.
Landoure, G.

2018:
Amin, M.
Chelban, V.
Nayak, S.S.
Ray, A.
Tyagi, R.
Chettiar, S.S.
Sudhakar, D.VS.
Naz, Q.
Uddin, K.M.F.
Arumugam, P.

2019:
Oumar Samassekou
Olanisun Olufemi Adewole
Patrice Avogbe
Samuel Kyobe
Palwende Boua
Ezinne Uvere
Jumoke Soyemi
Onochie Okoye
Doumbia Fatoumata
Lassana Cisse
Cheick Cisse
Savannah Mwesigwa
Arwa Babai

2019 Continued:
Samuel Adadey
Gora Diop
Yonas Balcha
Chiaka Anumudu
Oluwayemisi Olagunju
Elizabeth Olude
Oyesola Ojewunmi
Modibo Kouyate
Karen Kengne Kamga
Fanny Mbacham
Mbacham Sharon Bih-Epety Ngwafor
Momodou Wuri Jallow

2019 Continued:
Pooja Barak
Sohail Paracha
Parneet Kaur
Jignasa Dattani
Muhammad Ansar
Rifat Ahmed
Kenneth Onyegbula
Sajib Chakraborty
Shrayashi Biswas
Claudia Carranza
Manjari Jonnalagadda
Ahmad Habib

2020:
Hosneara Akter
Deepika Delsa Dean
Ramon Jr Larrazabal
Amar Sharma
Raman Kumar
Tulika Kakati
Trupti Patel
Debprasad Dutta
Virendra Singh
Alka Singh

2021:
Purvi Majethia
Anju Shukla
Gerrye Mubungu
Alassane dit Baneye Maiga
Abdoulaye Yalcouyé
Karen Kengne Kamga
Hosneara Akter
Muhammad Ilyas
Anum Shafique
Shagun Aggarwal

2022:
Ayda Abolhassani
Zafar Ali
Mohamed Zahir Alimohamed
Marion Amujal
Chinyere Anyika
Chandrika Bhattacharyya
Macoura Gadji
Rauan Kaiyrzhanov
Christine Ongoiba
Maha Zaki