The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors contemporary individuals in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women's Rights whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

Each award carries a gold medal and unrestricted cash prize of $500,000.
*Hubble Space Telescope photo by NASA

2009 Genetics Prize Awarded Janet Rowley revolutionized research in the field of cancer biology and the diagnosis and treatment of cancer with discoveries of specific chromosomal translocations in the leukemias and lymphomas.		2009 Women's Rights Prize Awarded Working within the courts and political and cultural institutions, Leymah Gbowee and the Women’s Legal Centre have helped to build peace and advance human rights for African women.
2009 Neuroscience Prize Awarded Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young transformed the field of molecular biology by revealing the gene-driven mechanism that controls circadian (daily) rhythms in the nervous system.		2009 Justice Prize Awarded Through recourse to litigation, consultation, and other approaches, Bryan Stevenson and the European Roma Rights Centre have helped members of oppressed groups gain access to equal justice.
2009 Cosmology Prize Awarded Leading the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, Wendy Freedman, Robert Kennicutt, and Jeremy Mould resolved a dispute about a vital measurement in astronomy: the Hubble Constant.*		Celebrating 10 Years of Gruber Prizes See video of DNA, the Brain, and Society, a symposium featuring distinguished scientists at the forefront of modern genetics and neuroscience.
Laureate Updates		Laureate Highlights
Gruber Prize Recipient John Mather wins Nobel John Mather, who led the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) team to the 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize, went on to be named co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.		David Botstein on Science Education 2003 Gruber Genetics Laureate and current Genetics Advisor David Botstein discusses science education at Princeton University.