2019 Awardees

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) congratulates the 2019 recipients of the Society’s seven prestigious prizes in human genetics. The 2019 ASHG Awards were presented to recipients at the 69th ASHG Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, October 15-19, 2019.

In addition, ASHG awarded 37 Developing Country Awards to individuals living in countries categorized by the World Bank as having low-income or lower-middle-income economies, who submitted abstracts to the ASHG 2019 Annual Meeting.

This year’s honorees are listed below.

Stylianos E. Antonarakis, MD, DSc, 2019 William Allan Award	Charles Rotimi, PhD, 2019 Curt Stern Award	Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, 2019 Curt Stern Award
Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD, 2019 Education Award	Kathleen Blazer, EDD, MS, LCGC, 2019 Education Award	Huda Zoghbi, MD, 2019 Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award
Rick Guidotti, 2019 Advocacy Award	Hal Dietz, MD, 2019 Mentorship Award	Stephen Montgomery, PhD, 2019 Early-Career Award