Previous Cohen Lectures

Year Lecturer Institution
1987 Donald Brown, MD Carnegie Institution of Washington
1988 Walter J Gehring, PhD Biozentrum University of Basel
1989 Raymond L White, PhD University of Utah
1991 Steven L McKnight, PhD Carnegie Institution of Washington
1992 Elizabeth H Blackburn, PhD University of California, San Francisco
1993 Janet D Rowley, MD University of Chicago
1994 Charles R Scriver, OC, MDCM, FRS McGill University
1995 Peter N Goodfellow, DPhil, FRS Cambridge University
1996 Stuart H Orkin, MD Harvard Medical School
1997 Richard Axel, MD Columbia University
1998 Bert Vogelstein, MD Johns Hopkins University
1999 Philip Leder, MD Harvard Medical School
2000 Joseph L Goldstein, MD UT Southwestern Medical Center
2001 Joan A Steitz, PhD Yale University
2002 Jeffrey M Friedman, PhD The Rockefeller Institute
2003 Richard P Lifton, MD, PhD Yale University
2004 Andrew Z Fire, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
2005 Sir Paul M Nurse The Rockefeller University
2006 Huda Y Zoghbi, MD Baylor College of Medicine
2007 Rudolf Jaenisch, MD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 Robert A Weinberg, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Michael Snyder, PhD Yale University
2010 Sean B Carroll PhD University of Wisconsin
2012 Carol W Greider, PhD Johns Hopkins University
2013 Mary-Claire King, PhD University of Washington
2014 Michael Levine, PhD University of California, Berkeley
2015 Jeannie T Lee, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School
2016 Tom Maniatis, PhD Columbia University Medical Center
2017 Peter Donnelly, PhD University of Oxford
2018 Hugo J Bellen, DVM, PhD Baylor College of Medicine
2019 Jennifer Doudna, PhD University of California Berkeley
2020 David Reich, PhD Harvard Medical School
2021 David Kingsley, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
2022 Titia D. Lange, PhD The Rockefeller University
2023 Robert B. Darnell, MD, PhD The Rockefeller University
2024 Edith Heard, PhD Collège de France
2025 Harmit Singh Malik, PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center