e. mead johnson award e. mead johnson award the e. mead johnson award, given by the society for pediatric research, was established in 1939 to honor clinical and laboratory research achievements in pediatrics. the awards are funded by mead johnson nutritionals, a subsidiary of reckitt benckiser and are named after edward mead johnson, a co-founder of the originating company johnson & johnson. two researchers sometimes share a prize. award recipients source: 1939 frederic a. gibbs, dorothy hansine andersen 1940 robert e. gross, lee e. farr 1941 rené j. dubos, albert sabin 1942 david bodian and howard a. howe, harold e. harrison and helen c. harrison 1943 hattie e. alexander, philip levine 1944 fuller albright, josef warkany 1945 no awards given 1946 horace l. hodes, paul a. harper 1947 helen b. taussig, louis k. diamond 1948 wolf w. zuelzer, benjamin m. spock 1949 nathan b. talbot, henry l. barnett 1950 charles d. may and harry shwachman, gertrude henle and werner henle 1951 william m. wallace, victor a. najjar 1952 seymour s. cohen, orvar swenson and edward b.d. neuhauser 1953 frederick c. robbins and thomas h. weller, margaret h. smith 1954 robert e. cooke, vincent c. kelley 1955 robert a. good 1956 david gitlin, arnall patz 1957 alfred m. bongiovanni and walter r. eberlein, albert dorfman 1958 william a. silverman, norman kretchmer 1959 c. henry kempe, barton childs 1960 robert a. aldrich, irving schulman 1961 lytt irvine gardner, donald e. pickering 1962 park s. gerald, robert l. vernier 1963 daniel carleton gajdusek, richard t. smith 1964 robert m. chanock, abraham m. rudolph 1965 david y.-y hsia, l. stanley james 1966 william h. tooley, robert w. winters 1967 henry neil kirkman, henry m. meyer and paul d. parkman 1968 mary ellen avery, charles r. scriver 1969 frederick c. battaglia, gerard b. odell 1970 myron winick, joseph a. bellanti 1971 paul g. quie, fred s. rosen 1972 chester m. edelmann, frank a. oski 1973 henry l. nadler, james g. white 1974 andre j. nahmias, e. richard stiehm 1975 john b. robbins and david h. smith, rawle m. mcintosh 1976 haig h. kazazian, david lawrence rimoin 1977 arthur j. ammann, michael e. miller 1978 samuel a. latt, pearay l. ogra 1979 philip l. ballard, harvey r. colten 1980 r. michael blaese, s. michael mauer 1981 robert j. desnick, erwin w. gelfand 1982 larry j. shapiro, jerry a. winkelstein 1983 laurence a. boxer, samuel e. lux 1984 jan l. breslow, john a. phillips 1985 russell w. chesney, augustine joseph d'ercole 1986 raif salim geha, alan h. jobe 1987 donald c. anderson, stuart h. orkin 1988 jeffrey a. whitsett, barry wolf 1989 steven m. reppert, robert h. yolken 1990 gregory a. grabowski, arnold w. strauss 1991 louis m. kunkel, ronald g. worton 1992 ann margaret arvin, francis s. collins and lap-chee tsui 1993 edward r.b. mccabe, alan l. schwartz 1994 david a. williams, david h. perlmutter 1995 margaret k. hostetter, alan m. krensky 1996 perrin c. white, huda y. zoghbi 1997 donald y.m. leung, elaine tuomanen 1998 jonathan d. gitlin, james r. lupski, jeffrey c. murray 1999 steven h. abman and chaim m. roifman 2000 mark a. kay and gregg l. semenza 2001 alan d. d'andrea, steve a.n. goldstein 2002 nancy c. andrews, markus grompe 2003 gregory s. barsh, val c. sheffield 2004 bruce d. gelb, friedhelm hildebrandt 2005 elizabeth c. engle, terence r. flotte 2006 james e. crowe, david pellman 2007 marc e. rothenberg, deepak srivastava 2008 todd r. golub, victor nizet 2009 george q. daley, brendan lee 2010 jean-laurent casanova, fernando pedro polack 2011 joel hirschhorn, eric vilain 2012 scott a. armstrong, nicholas katsanis 2013 william t. pu, bradley l. schlaggar 2014 atul butte, john vance williams 2015 ophir klein, loren d. walensky 2016 kimberly stegmaier, sing sing way 2017 jordan s. orange 2018 helen su 2019 joshua d. milner 2021 sallie permar 2022 vijay g. sankaran 2023 audrey odom john