Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.

Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair of genetics, professor of genetics, medicine and molecular biophysics and biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Section of Neurobiology and the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience, received the medical research awards of The Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation at its 14th annual medical and scientific awards dinner in Los Angeles. Lifton was recognized for his pioneering application of molecular genetic approaches to the study of hypertension. Rakic was recognized for his critical discoveries on the interaction of nerve and glial cells as they develop in the brain. Each received a $35,000 prize.