2021 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
For the discovery of fundamental pathways and mechanisms that ensure accurate RNA splicing and quality control of gene expression involving RNA

The 2021 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize was received by two exceptional scientists for the "discovery of fundamental pathways and mechanisms that ensure accurate RNA splicing and quality control of gene expression involving RNA. Mutations in these pathways account for many human diseases. "

Joan Steitz, Yale University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lynne Maquat, Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology, and Founding Chair of Graduate Women in Science at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY


Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Recipients / Warren Alpert Foundation