Three scientists who work in isolating human stem cells won the 11th annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, officials say.
Elaine Fuchs, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Rockefeller University in New York City; James A. Thomson of the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wis. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco are co-recipients of the $500,000 prize.