| 2011 | Mary-Claire King, PhD American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Medicine (Medical genetics) and the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington Anna Karenina and the Genetics of Complex Disease |
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| 2010 | Dr. Tomas Lindahl, M.D., F.R.S., Nobel Laureate Mutagenesis Laboratory, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories Endogenous DNA damage as a risk factor: From biochemistry to mouse models and human disease |
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| 2008 | Dr. Arnold J. Levine The Simons Center for Systems Biology Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ The p53 Pathway: Cancer, Fertility, Metabolic Control and the Central Nervous System |
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| 2004 | Dr. Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers MGC, Department of Cell Biology & Genetics Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 'Save your genes' The impact of DNA damage and repair on cancer and aging |
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| 2002 | Dr. Robert F. Furchgott, Nobel Laureate Department of Physiology and Pharmacology SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn, NY The Importance of Accidental Discoveries in Research Leading to Nitric Oxide |
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| 2001 | Martin C. Raff, M.D. University College London, UK Timing and Cell Number Control in Neural Development |
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| 1999 | Joseph L. Goldstein, M.D., Nobel Laureate University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center A Proteolytic Pathway that Controls the Cholesterol Content of Membranes, Cells, and Blood |
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| 1997 | Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D., Nobel Laureate University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center G Proteins and Regulation of Adenylyl Cyclase |
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| 1996 | Sir James Black, FRS, FRCP, Nobel Laureate Kings College, London Gastrin/Cholecystokinin Receptors |
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| 1995 | Dirk Bootsma, Ph.D. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands DNA Repair: Maintaining Nature's Perfection |
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| 1994 | Leroy E. Hood, M.D., Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle Analysis of the Human & Mouse Loci: Mapping, Sequencing, Computation, & Biological Consequence |
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| 1993 | Sydney Brenner, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate Cambridge University Analysis of Genomes |
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| 1992 | Victor A. McKusick, M.D. Johns Hopkins University The Human Genome Project: Background, Status, Prospects, Implications |
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| 1990 | Har Gobind Khorana, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology Light Transduction by Bacteriorhodopsin and Visual Rhodopsin |
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| 1989 | Howard M. Temin, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate McArdle Laboratory, University of Wisconsin Retrovirus Evolution and Variation |
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| 1988 | Daniel Nathans, M.D., Nobel Laureate Johns Hopkins University Genomic Response to Growth Factor |
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