American biochemists and immunologists (born 1950)
Philip Felgner
Born Philip Louis Felgner
(1950-02-07 ) 7 February 1950 (age 74) Alma mater Michigan State University Scientific career Fields
Philip Louis Felgner (born 7 February 1950) is an American biochemists and immunologists, specialized in lipofection technology and genetics. He is one of the developers of the vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19 pandemic .
In 1972, he graduated in biochemistry from the Michigan State University , earning his master's degree in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1978. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Virginia .[ 1]
In 2021, he was awarded the Princess of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research along Katalin Karikó , Drew Weissman , Uğur Şahin , Özlem Türeci , Derrick Rossi , and Sarah Gilbert .[ 2]
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Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
1981: Alberto Sols
1982: Manuel Ballester
1983: Luis Antonio Santaló Sors
1984: Antonio Garcia-Bellido
1985: David Vázquez Martínez and Emilio Rosenblueth
1986: Antonio González González
1987: Jacinto Convit and Pablo Rudomín
1988: Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky
1989: Guido Münch
1990: Santiago Grisolía and Salvador Moncada
1991: Francisco Bolívar Zapata
1992: Federico García Moliner
1993: Amable Liñán
1994: Manuel Patarroyo
1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica
1996: Valentín Fuster
1997: Atapuerca research team
1998: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar
1999: Ricardo Miledi and Enrique Moreno González
2000: Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
2001: Craig Venter , John Sulston , Francis Collins , Hamilton Smith , and Jean Weissenbach
2002: Lawrence Roberts , Robert E. Kahn , Vinton Cerf , and Tim Berners-Lee
2003: Jane Goodall
2004: Judah Folkman , Tony Hunter , Joan Massagué , Bert Vogelstein , and Robert Weinberg
2005: Antonio Damasio
2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac
2007: Peter Lawrence and Ginés Morata
2008: Sumio Iijima , Shuji Nakamura , Robert Langer , George M. Whitesides , and Tobin Marks
2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson
2010: David Julius , Baruch Minke , and Linda Watkins
2011: Joseph Altman , Arturo Álvarez-Buylla , and Giacomo Rizzolatti
2012: Gregory Winter and Richard A. Lerner
2013: Peter Higgs , François Englert , and European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN
2014: Avelino Corma Canós , Mark E. Davis , and Galen D. Stucky
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
2016: Hugh Herr
2017: Rainer Weiss , Kip S. Thorne , Barry C. Barish , and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
2018: Svante Pääbo
2019: Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz
2020: Yves Meyer , Ingrid Daubechies , Terence Tao , and Emmanuel Candès
2021: Katalin Karikó , Drew Weissman , Philip Felgner , Uğur Şahin , Özlem Türeci , Derrick Rossi , and Sarah Gilbert
2022: Geoffrey Hinton , Yann LeCun , Yoshua Bengio , and Demis Hassabis
2023: Jeffrey I. Gordon , Everett Peter Greenberg , and Bonnie Bassler
2024: Daniel J. Drucker , Jeffrey M. Friedman , Joel F. Habener , Jens Juul Holst , and Svetlana Mojsov
International National Academics Other