Ross G. Harrison Award

The Ross G. Harrison Award was established in 1981 to recognize scientists whose contributions have significantly advanced the field of developmental biology, and has come to be acknowledged as the premier recognition of achievement in the field. The Ross G. Harrison Medal is awarded once every four years at a ceremony at the ISDB Congress. The recipient of the Ross G. Harrison Award delivers a lecture at the ISDB meeting and is presented with the Ross G. Harrison Medal. The first Ross G. Harrison Award was awarded in 1981 to Donald D. Brown for his molecular approach to the elucidation of developmental mechanisms in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis.

The Ross G. Harrison Medal 
The medal shows an image of Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959), based on a picture of Harrison (courtesy of Judy Cebra-Thomas and Scott Gilbert) on one side, and pictures of cells taken from a paper by Harrison (Harrison (1910) The outgrowth of the nerve fiber as a model of protoplasmic movement. J Exp Zool, 9: 787-846) on the other side. Ross Granville Harrison is credited as the first to successfully grow cells in vitro and by making important contributions to embryology and the symmetries during limb development, using Ambystoma punctatum (salamander, in the picture). The medal was designed by Claudio Stern (ISDB president 2010-2013).

2022

Marianne Bronner

2017

Claudio Stern

2013

Janet Rossant

2009

Edward M. De Robertis

2005

Elliot Meyerowitz 

2001

Masatoshi Takeichi

1997

Nicole Le Douarin

1993

Pieter Nieuwkoop

1989

Tokindo S. Okada

1985

Sir John Gurdon

1981

Viktor Hamburger and Donald Brown