The Wiley Foundation today announced the 17th annual Wiley
Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Lynne E. Maquat
for elucidating the mechanism of nonsense-mediated messenger RNA
decay, a fundamental process whereby cells remove defective transcripts
that can encode toxic proteins.
Dr. Maquat is a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Founding Director of the
Center for RNA Biology: From Genome to Therapeutics, the Founding Chair
of the University of Rochester Graduate Women in Science, and the J.
Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair at the University of Rochester in
Rochester, New York.
“The 2018 Wiley Prize honors Dr. Maquat, whose work illuminated how our
cells prevent production of toxic proteins by removing defective
messenger RNAs," said Dr. Titia de Lange, Chairperson of the awards jury
for the Wiley Prize at the Rockefeller University in New York City.
“The Wiley Foundation honors research that champions novel approaches
and challenges accepted thinking in the biomedical sciences. The work of
the 2018 Wiley Prize recipient Lynne Maquat truly upholds this mission,”
said Deborah Wiley, Chair of the Wiley
Foundation. “We are pleased to highlight the impact that her
research on messenger RNA decay pathways has had in advancing our
knowledge of the cellular cause of many human diseases.”
First awarded in 2002, The Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences is
presented annually to recognize contributions that have opened new
fields of research or have advanced concepts in a particular biomedical
discipline. Among the many distinguished recipients of the Wiley Prize
in Biomedical Sciences, nine have gone on to be awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine and two have gone on to be awarded
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
This year’s award of $50,000 will be presented to the winner on April
13, 2018 at the Wiley Prize luncheon at The Rockefeller University. The
winner will then deliver an honorary lecture as part of The
Rockefeller University Lecture Series. This event will be live
streamed via the Current
Protocols’ Webinar Series and registration
is free.
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Full biography of Wiley 2018 Prize Winner
Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair, is Professor
at the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics in the School of Medicine
and Dentistry, Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology: From
Genome to Therapeutics, and Founding Chair of the University of
Rochester Graduate Women in Science at the University of Rochester in
Rochester, NY. She is an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts
& Sciences (2006), the National Academy of Sciences (2011) and the
National Academy of Medicine (2017). Lynne was a Batsheva de Rothschild
Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities (2012-3) and has
received the William C. Rose Award from the American Society for
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (2014), a Canada Gairdner International
Award (2015), the international RNA Society Lifetime Achievement Award
in Service (2010) and in Science (2017), the Vanderbilt Prize in
Biomedical Sciences (2017), and the Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology (FASEB) Excellence in Science Award (2018). Lynne
wishes to acknowledge continuous support from the National Institutes of
Health for the past 35 years, without which her research would not have
been possible.
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