Events
Past Events
Each year, to reinforce ARCS Foundation's interest in scientific excellence, the San Diego Chapter recognizes an individual scientist for their outstanding achievement in the scientific arena.
Past recipients:
2024 Dr. Terry Sejnowski
Director, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Director, Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical &
Computational Biology at Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Distinguished Professor, Department of
Neurobiology at UC San Diego
2023 Dr. Margaret Leinen
Vice Chancellor, Marine Sciences at UC San Diego
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Dean, School of Marine Sciences
2022 Dr. Ardem Patapoutian
Professor, Scripps Research
2021 Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire
Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
2020 Dr. Paul Schimmel
Professor of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research
2018 Dr. Fred "Rusty" Gage
President, Salk Institute
2017 Dr. Karen E. Nelson
President, J. Craig Venter Institute
2016 Dr. Lawrence Goldstein
Distinguished Professor, UCSD School of Medicine
2015 Gregory T. Lucier
Former Chairman & CEO, Life Technologies Corporation
2014 Dr. V. S. Ramachandran
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition
University of California, San Diego
2013 Dr. Eric J. Topol
Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health
Professor of Genomics, Scripps Research
2012 Dean Kamen
Scientist, Innovator, Entrepreneur
2011 Dr. Richard C. Atkinson
President Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
2010 Dr. J. Craig Venter
Founder, Chairman & President
J. Craig Venter Institute
2009 Dr. Erminia Guarneri
Founder and Medical Director
Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
2008 Dr. Bruce Margon
Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Santa Cruz
2007 Dr. John C. Reed
President & CEO
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
2006 Dr. Ivor Royston
Oncologist, Entrepreneur,
Venture Capitalist & Philanthropist
Co-Founder, Forward Ventures
2005 Burt Rutan
President & CEO, Scaled Composites, LLC
2004 Dr. Sydney Brenner
Distinguished Professor
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2003 Dr. Marcia McNutt
President & CEO
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
2002 Dr. Richard A. Lerner
President, Scripps Research
2001 Dr. Dean Ornish
Founder, President and Director
Preventive Medicine Research Institute of Sausalito
2000 Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs
Chairman and CEO, QUALCOMM
1999 Dr. Francis H. C. Crick
Nobel Laureate
Distinguished Research Professor
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1998 Dr. Gail K. Naughton
President and Chief Operating Officer
Advanced Tissue Sciences, Incorporated
1997 Dr. Kurt Benirschke
Professor Emeritus of Pathology & Reproductive Medicine
University of California, San Diego, Medical Center
1996 Dr. Floyd Bloom
Chairman, Department of Neuropharmacology
Scripps Research
Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
1995 Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Eugene Shoemaker
Co-discoverers, Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet
1994 Dr. Gerald M. Edelman
Nobel laureate
Scripps Research
1993 Professor Walter Munk
Geophysicist
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1992 Dr. Paul MacCready
Inventor, Gossamer Condor
1991 Admiral James D. Watkins
Secretary, U. S. Department of Energy
1990 Dr. Sally K. Ride
Astronaut
Professor of Physics
University of California, San Diego
1989 Dr. Simon Ramo
Cofounder, TRW, Incorporated
1988 Dr. Cecil H. Green
Cofounder, Texas Instruments, Incorporated
1987 Dr. Allen E. Puckett
Chairman Emeritus, Hughes Aircraft Company
