National Gala Lifetime Achievement Awards

David Shaw and Glenn Close are pleased to serve as co-chairs for The Jackson Laboratory’s National Gala Lifetime Achievement Awards on September 18, 2008, at The Pierre Hotel in New York.

This gala honors two extraordinary leaders in the world of life sciences and human health:

  • David Baltimore, Ph.D., Nobel Prize-winning scientist
  • Anthony B. Evnin, Ph.D., General Partner,Venrock

Join us for this tribute to David and Tony, two legends in the life science world, as they are presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Funds raised by the national gala will support young investigators at The Jackson Laboratory, continuing its long history of advancing human health. 

 

 

 

 

 


 

David Baltimore"The excitement of science is in doing, not in books.  The summer I spent at The Jackson Laboratory as a teenager was the decisive factor in my choosing biology as a major in college."
~David Baltimore, Ph.D.

Read about Dr. Baltimore


Anthony Evnin

"Working with new life sciences companies over the last three decades has resulted in the creation of a number of substantial enterprises and, equally important, the development of significant new medicines, medical devices, and diagnostics that have improved human health.
~ Anthony B. Evnin, Ph.D.

Read about Dr. Evnin