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The Nobel Laureates
March of Dimes investment in research has led to the world's most prestigious award in science, a Nobel Prize, to 11 scientists whose original work was supported by March of Dimes research grants.They are:
1954
Dr. Linus Pauling: Identified the first known human disease caused by a specific molecular abnormality, sickle cell anemia.
Dr. John F. Enders, Dr. Thomas Weller and Dr. Frederick Robbins: Developed tissue culture method for growing polio virus.
1962
Dr. James D. Watson: Identified double helix structure of DNA.
1969
Dr. Max Delbruck: Showed how genes direct normal development and mutations cause abnormal development.
1976
Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek: Discovered role of unconventional infectious agents in certain rare degenerative brain disorders.
1985
Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein: Identified cellular cause of familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder causing very high cholesterol in the blood.
1995
Dr. Edward B. Lewis and Dr. Eric F. Wieschaus: Identified master genes that control early structural development of the body.
2003
Peter Agre: Identified the long-sought channels through which our cells precisely control influx and outflux of water via their membranes, a process fundamental to all life.
Three of these – Drs. Goldstein, Wieschaus, and Agre – had March of Dimes grants from the Basil O'Connor Starter Research program, created to identify especially promising young scientists and to launch their career commitments to birth defects research.
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