The 2015 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Medical Science and Medicinal Science
• Achievement:
  Proposal of the concept of gene therapy and its clinical applications
• Lecture:
  Gene therapy - A 45 year journey from concept to a new medicine

Major Awards

1984-85	UCSD's Faculty Research Lecturer Award
1992	University of California, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Research
1995	The 1995 H.C. Jacobæus Prize of the Nordic Research Committee and Nordic Insulin Foundation, Lund, Sweden
1996	The 1996 Cross of Honor for Science and the Arts, Republic of Austria
1996	Salvador Zubiran Medal of Mexico
1996	The Newton-Abraham Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford
2003	The Award of Merit from National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2006	Distinguished Graduate Award from the University of Pennsylvania
2006	President of American Society of Gene Therapy

Academic Degrees

1956	A.B. in Chemistry from University of Pennsylvania
1960	M.D. from University of Pennsylvania
1995	M.A. from University of Oxford

Professional Career

1960-1962	Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1962-1963	U.S. Air Force, Captain, 10th Tac., Hospital, Alconbury, England
1963-1964	University of Cambridge, England, Research Fellow in Colloid Science
1964-1965	Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, and Teaching and Research Fellow, Harvard University
1965-1968	National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
1969-1973	University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
1973-1981	University of California, San Diego, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
1981-Present	University of California, San Diego, Professor of Pediatrics

Affiliation

• University of California, San Diego
  Department of Pediatrics
  9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, U.S.A.

Major Publications

• Friedmann T, Roblin R. Gene therapy for human genetic disease? Science 175(25): 949-955, 1972.
• Willis RC, Jolly DJ, Miller AD, Plent MM, Esty AC, Anderson PJ, Chang HC, Jones OW, Seegmiller JE, Friedmann T. Partial phenotypic correction of human Lesch-Nyhan (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient) lymphoblasts with a transmissible retroviral vector. J Biol Chem 259(12): 7842-7849, 1984.
• Miller AD, Eckner RJ, Jolly DJ, Friedmann T, Verma IM. Expression of a retrovirus encoding human HPRT in mice. Science 225(4662): 630-632, 1984.
• Yee JK, Moores JC, Jolly DJ, Wolff JA, Respess JG, Friedmann T. Gene expression from transcriptionally disabled retroviral vectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 84(15): 5197-5201, 4987.
• Emi, N., Friedmann, T. and Yee, J.-K., “Pseudotype Formation of Murine Leukemia Virus with the G Protein of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus,” J. Virol. 65, 1202-1207 (1991)