3 Genetics Researchers to Share $500,000 Prize

Three genetics researchers will share the 2010 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, a $500,000 award that was announced on Wednesday by the New York institution. The winners are David Botstein, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University; Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health; and Eric Steven Lander, president and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. They are being recognized for their roles in mapping of the human genome. The prize, created in 2000 with a $50-million gift from the Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation, is scheduled to be presented annually for 100 years.