In April of 1998, Drs. Peng Liang and Arthur Pardee were honored for their invention of the differential display process with the 1998 Molecular Bioanalytics Prize, a prize given by the German Society of Molecular Biology and Biological Chemistry for outstanding work in molecular bioanalytics. The two gentlemen shared the prize of 100,000 German Marks, endowed by Roche Diagnostics (formerly Boehringer Mannheim). The prize is awarded biannually in association with the Analytica conference in Germany. Past winners of this prize include Frederick Sanger, Walter Gilbert, Cesar Milstein, George Kohler and Kary Mullis, all of whom went on to win the Nobel Prize for their work.
1998 Molecular Bioanalytics Prize Press Release
?Boehringer Mannheim GmbH: This year?s Prize Molecular Bioanalytics goes to Arthur Pardee and Peng Liang. It is awarded for the development of the Differential Display technique, a novel and powerful tool for the identification and isolation of genes, which once again revolutionized genome analysis. The award of Molecular Bioanalytics Prize pays tribute to this contribution.? |