2022

Sheila Nirenberg, PhD, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

2020

Gerrit Melles, MD, PhD, Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2019

Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

2018

Botond Roska MD, PhD, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel

2017

Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine, UW Medicine Eye Institute, WA

2016

Daniel Palanker, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, CA

2015

Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, University of California, Irvine and former Chair Department of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

2014

Emily Y. Chew, MD, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, D.C.

2013

Simon W. M. John, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

2012

Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Departments of Ophthalmology, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

2011

Constance L. Cepko, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Genetics, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

2010

Martin Friedlander, MD, PhD, Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute. Department of Ophthalmology, Scripps Clinic and Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA

2009

Roy W. Beck, MD, PhD, of the Jaeb Center for Health Research and the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2008

Jonathan C. Horton, MD, PhD, of the Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, CA

2007

David R. Williams, PhD, of the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2006

Lois E. H. Smith, MD, PhD, of Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2005

Burton J. Kushner, MD, of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

2004

Robert W. Massof, PhD, of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and Eliezer Peli, OD, of the Schepens Eye Research Institute at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2003

Richard A. Lewis, MD, of the Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

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