The 2024 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Medical Science and Pharmaceutical Science
• Achievement:
  Discovery of the nuclear hormone receptor family and its application to drug development
• Lecture：
  Organ Physiology and its Transcriptional Underpinning

Education

1970	B.A.(Bachelor of Sciense), Bacteriology, University of California, Los Angeles
1974	PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Los Angeles

Professional Experience

1978	Completed postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University with James E. Darnell
1978	Faculty member at the Salk Institute
1985	Investigator of HHMI
1985	Adjunct Professor in Biology at UCSD
1989	Biomedical Sciences at UCSD
1995	Neuroscience at UCSD
1998	March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute

Academic Journals

• S M Hollenberg, C Weinberger, E S Ong, G Cerelli, A Oro, R Lebo, E B Thompson, M G Rosenfeld, R M Evans. Primary structure and expression of a functional human glucocorticoid receptor cDNA. Nature 318: 635-641(1985)
• V Giguere, E S Ong, P Segui, R M Evans. Identification of a receptor for the morphogen retinoic acid. Nature 330: 624-629(1987)
• K Umesono, K K Murakami, C C Thompson, R M Evans. Direct repeats as selective response elements for the thyroid hormone, retinoic acid, and vitamin D3 receptors.
  Cell 65:1255-1266(1991)
• B M Forman, P Tontonoz, J Chen, R P Brun, B M Spiegelman, R M Evans. 15-Deoxy-delta 12, 14-prostaglandin J2 is a ligand for the adipocyte determination factor PPAR gamma. Cell 83: 803-812(1995)

Awards

1989	National Academy of Sciences Member
1994	California Museum of Science and Industry and the California Museum Foundation, California Scientist of the Year
1999	The Endocrine Society Fred Conrad Koch Award
2000	First Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Research
2003	Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
2003	General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Medal
2003	Keio Medical Science Prize
2004	Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
2005	Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, UCLA
2005	“Grande Medaille d’Or” of the French Academy of Sciences
2006	Gairdner Foundation International Award
2006	Technion University, Israel, Harvey Prize
2012	Wolf Foundation, Israel, Wolf Prize In Medicine
2013	Society for Endocrinology, United Kingdom, Dale Medal
2014	American Association for Cancer Research Fellow
2014	The Lustgarten Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award
2015	Frontiers in Science Award
2018	American Association for The Advancement of Science Fellow
2018	Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
2020	NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award
2021	Asan Award in Basic Medicine