Searle Scholars Program

The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to support 15 young faculty in biomedical research and chemistry at US universities and research centers. The goal of the award is to support to exceptional young scientists who are at the beginning of their independent research careers and are working in the fields of medicine, chemistry, and/or biological sciences.

History The award was established in 1980 by a donation from trusts established by John G. Searle and Frances C. Searle. John G. Searle had served as President of G. D. Searle & Company, a pharmaceutical company known for developing the first female birth control pill. The program is funded through the Chicago Community Trust and administered by the Kinship Foundation.

Process Applicants must be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences, and must be in their first or second year of their first tenure-track assistant professor position. Applicants at 176 universities are eligible to be nominated. Grantees receive grants worth $300,000, paid out over the course of 3 years.

Recipients As of 2022, 622 Searle Scholars had been selected. Since 1981: 85 recipients have been inducted into the US National Academy of Sciences. 20 recipients have received a MacArthur Fellowship. 2 recipients have won the Nobel Prize.

1981

Dale L. Boger, University of Kansas Walter F. Boron, Yale University G. Charles Dismukes, Princeton University Elaine V. Fuchs, The University of Chicago Stanley M. Goldin, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Leroy F. Liu, The Johns Hopkins University James E. Niedel, Duke University Harry T. Orr, Professor of Pathology University of Minnesota Daniel K. Podolsky, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Lee L. Rubin, The Rockefeller University Wesley J. Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin Chun-Fang Wu, University of Iowa

1982

David A. Agard, University of California, San Francisco George Barany, University of Minnesota Albert H. Beth, Vanderbilt University Kurt Drickamer, The University of Chicago Alan L. Epstein, Northwestern University Larry R. Gerace, The Johns Hopkins University Stephen P. Goff, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Ralph J. Greenspan, Princeton University Mark E. Gurney, The University of Chicago Russel E. Kaufman, Duke University Daniel F. Klessig, University of Utah Burks Oakley II, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Peter Parham, Stanford University Jordan S. Pober, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Stuart L. Schreiber, Yale University Suresh Subramani, University of California, San Diego

1983

Frederick Alt, Columbia University Gary W. Brudvig, Yale University Peter M. J. Burgers, Washington University Michele P. Calos, Stanford University Robert B. Clark, University of Connecticut Daniel J. Donoghue, University of California, San Diego Richard W. Gross, Washington University Alfred J. Lewy, Oregon Health & Science University Douglas A. Melton, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Hylan C. Moises, University of Michigan Medical School Richard C. Mulligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel F. Schafer, University of Nebraska Paul C. Sternweis, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Kevin Struhl, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Roger Y. Tsien, University of California, Berkeley Margaret R. Wallace, University of Florida Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco Nancy L. Weigel, Baylor College of Medicine Stuart K. Williams, Thomas Jefferson University Barbara J. Wold, California Institute of Technology

1984

Richard W. Aldrich, Yale University Steven A. Benner, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Carlos J. Bustamante, University of New Mexico Thomas F. Donahue, Northwestern University Susan K. Dutcher, University of Colorado Scott D. Emr, California Institute of Technology Stephen L. Gluck, The University of Chicago R. Scott Hawley, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Paul B. Hopkins, University of Washington Michele Jungery, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Michael Karin, University of Southern California Brian G. Van Ness, University of Iowa Vincent R. Racaniello, Columbia University Douglas C. Rees, University of California, Los Angeles Pate Skene, Stanford University Tom H. Stevens, University of Oregon Dennis K. Stone, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Thomas D. Tullius, The Johns Hopkins University Edgar T. Walters, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Jean Y.J. Wang, University of California, San Diego

1985

Daniel J. Chin, University of California, San Francisco John W. Frost, Stanford University Margaret T. Fuller, University of Colorado James F. Gusella, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Adrian C. Hayday, Yale University Raphael C. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael S. Levine, Columbia University Daniel I. H. Linzer, Northwestern University William J. McGinnis, Yale University Edward G. Moczydlowski, University of Cincinnati Medical Center John W. Newport, University of California, San Diego Arthur Pardi, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Richard C. Parker, Columbia University Peter G. Schultz, University of California, Berkeley Matthew P. Scott University of Colorado Joseph S. Takahashi, Northwestern University Lex H. T. Van der Ploeg, Columbia University Barbara T. Wakimoto, University of Washington Jonathan Widom, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Chi-Huey Wong, Texas A&M University

1986

William H. Armstrong, University of California, Berkeley Jef D. Boeke, The Johns Hopkins University Constance L. Cepko, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Judith S. Eisen, University of Oregon Kenneth S. Feldman, The Pennsylvania State University Michael R. Green, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Jonathan G. Izant, Yale University Michael Kahn, University of Illinois at Chicago Cynthia J. Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco Kevin L. Kirk, University of Alabama at Birmingham John A. Leigh, University of Washington Dan R. Littman, University of California, San Francisco Vincent L. Pecoraro, University of Michigan Medical School Garabed G. Sahagian, Tufts University Molly Schmid, Princeton University Sara E. Via, University of Iowa Michael P. Yaffe, University of California, San Diego Kenneth S. Zaret, Brown University

1987

David J. Anderson, California Institute of Technology Jeremy M. Berg, The Johns Hopkins University Brent H. Cochran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James W. Golden, Texas A&M University Michael E. Greenberg, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Iva S. Greenwald, Princeton University Diana K. Hawley, University of Oregon Ralph R. Isberg, Tufts University Reid C. Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles Karla A. Kirkegaard, University of Colorado David M. Kranz, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Robert C. Landick, Washington University Mark A. Lehrman, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Daniel Margoliash, The University of Chicago Kelly E. Mayo, Northwestern University Richard M. Myers, University of California, San Francisco Thomas V. O'Halloran, Northwestern University Ronald D. Vale, University of California, San Francisco

1988

Allan Bradley, Baylor College of Medicine Vicki L. Chandler, University of Oregon Fred E. Cohen, University of California, San Francisco Trisha N. Davis, University of Washington Samuel H. Gellman, University of Wisconsin - Madison Howard D. Lipshitz, California Institute of Technology Terry P. Lybrand, University of Minnesota Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Los Angeles Terry L. Orr-Weaver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology David M. Shore, Columbia University Steven O. Smith, Yale University Hermann Steller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paul W. Sternberg, California Institute of Technology James H. Thomas, University of Washington Gerald S. Wilkinson, University of Maryland, Medical School

1989

Rene Bernards, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health David W. Christianson, University of Pennsylvania Richard H. Ebright, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Daniel E. Kahne, Princeton University William H. Kane, Duke University Manfred J. Lohka, University of Colorado Susan K. McConnell, Stanford University Aaron P. Mitchell, Columbia University Timothy J. Mitchison, University of California, San Francisco Gaetano T. Montelione, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Keith E. Mostov, University of California, San Francisco Alexandra C. Newton, Indiana University David C. Page, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ron M. Prywes, Columbia University Scott D. Rychnovsky, University of Minnesota John C. Schimenti, Case Western Reserve University Wesley C. Van Voorhis, University of Washington

1990

Jean S. Baum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Mark D. Biggin, Yale University David Alan Brow, University of Wisconsin - Madison Kenneth C. Burtis, University of California, Davis Chris Q. Doe, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign David G. Drubin, University of California, Berkeley Jeff Gelles, Brandeis University Joseph Holoshitz, University of Michigan Medical School Stuart K. Kim, Stanford University David Kimelman, University of Washington Gilles J. Laurent, California Institute of Technology Peter Lobel, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey David O. Morgan, University of California, San Francisco Roy R. Parker, University of Arizona Ernest G. Peralta, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Ronald T. Raines, University of Wisconsin - Madison Trina A. Schroer, The Johns Hopkins University Gregory L. Verdine, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health

1991

Eric V. Anslyn, The University of Texas at Austin Albert J. Courey, University of California, Los Angeles Todd R. Evans, University of Pittsburgh Gregory K. Farber, The Pennsylvania State University James E. Ferrell, University of Wisconsin - Madison Alan D. Friedman, The Johns Hopkins University Jorge E. Galan, Stony Brook University M. Reza Ghadiri, Scripps Research Institute Ann Hochschild, Harvard University and Harvard School of Public Health Brent L. Iverson, The University of Texas at Austin Jeffrey W. Kelly, Texas A&M University Richard S. Mann, Columbia University Cornelis Murre, University of California, San Diego Tamar Schlick, New York University Marc Tessier-Lavigne, University of California, San Francisco Michael Therien, University of Pennsylvania James R. Williamson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astar Winoto, University of California, Berkeley

1992

Cornelia I. Bargmann, University of California, San Francisco Warren F. Beck, Vanderbilt University Alan D. Bender, Indiana University Christopher C. Goodnow, Stanford University Kathleen L. Gould, Vanderbilt University Mark W. Hochstrasser, The University of Chicago Chris A. Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Elizabeth A. Komives, University of California, San Diego Mitzi I. Kuroda, Baylor College of Medicine Yang Liu, New York University Mark Peifer, University of North Carolina B. Franklin Pugh, The Pennsylvania State University Joel H. Rothman, University of Wisconsin - Madison Alan B. Sachs, University of California, Berkeley Hazel L. Sive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology William B. Tolman, University of Minnesota Thomas F. Vogt, Princeton University

1993