American biochemist and physiologist (born 1954)
Linda R. Watkins (born 1954) is an American biochemist and physiologist. She discovered glial cells which play a key role in the neuronal treatment of pain .
Since 1988 she has been a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder , in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.[1]
In 2010, she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research along David Julius and Baruch Minke .[2]
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Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
1981: Alberto Sols 1982: Manuel Ballester 1983: Luis Antonio Santaló Sors 1984: Antonio Garcia-Bellido 1985: David Vázquez Martínez and Emilio Rosenblueth 1986: Antonio González González 1987: Jacinto Convit and Pablo Rudomín 1988: Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky 1989: Guido Münch 1990: Santiago Grisolía and Salvador Moncada 1991: Francisco Bolívar Zapata 1992: Federico García Moliner 1993: Amable Liñán 1994: Manuel Patarroyo 1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica 1996: Valentín Fuster 1997: Atapuerca research team 1998: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar 1999: Ricardo Miledi and Enrique Moreno González 2000: Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier 2001: Craig Venter , John Sulston , Francis Collins , Hamilton Smith , and Jean Weissenbach 2002: Lawrence Roberts , Robert E. Kahn , Vinton Cerf , and Tim Berners-Lee 2003: Jane Goodall 2004: Judah Folkman , Tony Hunter , Joan Massagué , Bert Vogelstein , and Robert Weinberg 2005: Antonio Damasio 2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac 2007: Peter Lawrence and Ginés Morata 2008: Sumio Iijima , Shuji Nakamura , Robert Langer , George M. Whitesides , and Tobin Marks 2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson 2010: David Julius , Baruch Minke , and Linda Watkins 2011: Joseph Altman , Arturo Álvarez-Buylla , and Giacomo Rizzolatti 2012: Gregory Winter and Richard A. Lerner 2013: Peter Higgs , François Englert , and European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN 2014: Avelino Corma Canós , Mark E. Davis , and Galen D. Stucky
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna 2016: Hugh Herr 2017: Rainer Weiss , Kip S. Thorne , Barry C. Barish , and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration 2018: Svante Pääbo 2019: Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz 2020: Yves Meyer , Ingrid Daubechies , Terence Tao , and Emmanuel Candès 2021: Katalin Karikó , Drew Weissman , Philip Felgner , Uğur Şahin , Özlem Türeci , Derrick Rossi , and Sarah Gilbert 2022: Geoffrey Hinton , Yann LeCun , Yoshua Bengio , and Demis Hassabis 2023: Jeffrey I. Gordon , Everett Peter Greenberg , and Bonnie Bassler 2024: Daniel J. Drucker , Jeffrey M. Friedman , Joel F. Habener , Jens Juul Holst , and Svetlana Mojsov
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