The 2008 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Medical Genomics and Genetics
• Achievement:
  Establishment of medical genetics and contributions to its development
• Lecture:
  Medical Genetics and Genomics: A personal 60-year overview
• Lecture:
  Medical Genetics and Genomics: A personal 60-year overview

Major Honors and Awards

1972	John Phillips Award, American College of Physicians for distinguished contribution, internal medicine
1977	Gairdner International Award
1977	William A. Allan Award of American Society of Human Genetics
1982	James Murray Luck Award, National Academy of Sciences
1983	Sanremo International Prize for Genetic Research
1987	International Pediatrics Hall of Fame, Miami Children's Hospital
1989	Passano Award
1990	George M. Kober Medal, American Association of Physicians
1997	Albert Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science
2002	National Medal of Science

Memberships and Fellowships

	Founder and first president, Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
	Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation
	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
	Member, Association of American Physicians
	Member, American Clinical and Climatological Association
	Member, American Society of Human Genetics
	Member, National Academy of Sciences
	Member, American Philosophical Society
	Corresponding member, l’Academie Nationale de Medecine (France)
	Master, American College of Physicians
	Member, Institute of Medicine
	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
	Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London

Honorary Degrees

1974	New York Medical College
1976	University of Liverpool
1978	University of Maine
1978	Tufts University
1979	University of Rochester
1979	Medical University of South Carolina
1979	Memorial University of Newfoundland
1981	University of Helsinki
1984	University of Edinburgh '
1988	Medical College of Ohio
1988	University of Aberdeen
1989	Bates College
1989	Tel Aviv University
1990	University of Zurich
1991	Colby College
1991	University of Chicago
1992	Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
1998	Medical College of Wisconsin
1999	University of Athens
2000	Johns Hopkins University
2002	Rockefeller University
2006	McGill University
2007	University of Bologna

Academic Degrees

1940-1943	Tufts University (no degree)
1946	M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Professional Career

1946-1947	Intern, Osler Medical Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1947-1948	Assistant resident, Osler Medical Clinic, Johns Hopkins
1948-1950	Executive Chief, Cardiovascular Unit, US Marine Hospital, Baltimore
1950-1951	Senior Assistant Resident, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1951-1952	Hospital and Resident Physician, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1953-Present	Physician, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1947-1951	Assistant in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1951-1954	Instructor in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1954-1956	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1956-1960	Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1957-1973	Chief, Division of Medical Genetics. Dept. of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1958-1969	Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health
1960-Present	Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1969-Present	Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1969-Present	Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
1973-1985	Chairman, Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1985-Present	University Professor of Medical Genetic, Johns Hopkins University

Title

• University Professor of Medical Genetics, the McKusick- Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University

Major Publications

• Jeghers, H., McKusick, V.A., Katz, K.H.: Generalized intestinal polyposis and melanin spots of the oral mucosa, lips and digits. New Engl J Med 211: 993-1005, 1031-1036, 1949.
• Porter, I. H., Schulze, J. and McKusick, V. A.: Genetical linkage between the loci for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and colour-blindness in American Negroes. Ann. Hum. Genet. 26: 107-122, 1962.
• Donahue, R. P., Bias, W. B., Renwick, J. H. and McKusick, V.A. Probable assignment of the Duffy blood group locus to chromosome 1 in man. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 61: 949-955, 1968.
• McKusick, V. A. and Ruddle, F. H.: The status of the gene map of the human chromosomes. Science 196:390-405, 1977.
• McKusick, V. A.: The morbid anatomy of the human genome: A review of gene mapping in clinical medicine (Four parts). Medicine 65:1-33, 1986; 66:1-63, 1987; 66:237-296, 1987; 67:1-19, 1988.
• McKusick, V.A.: The anatomy of the human genome: a neo-Vesalian basis for medicine in the 21st century. JAMA 286: 2289-2295, 2001.
• McKusick, V.A.: Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1966 (1st edition); 1998 (12th edition in 3 volumes). Online version OMIM, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim.