- 2025 Randall Snurr, Northwestern University
- 2024 Samir Mitragotri, Harvard University
- 2023 Rebecca Carrier, Northeastern University 2021
- 2020 Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
- 2019 Wilfred Chen, University of Delaware
- 2018 Andrew Zydney, Pennsylvania State University
- 2017 Paula T. Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2016 Gregory Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2015 Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
- 2014 John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology
- 2013 Curtis W. Frank, Stanford University
- 2012 K. Dane Wittrup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2011 Frank S. Bates, University of Minnesota
- 2010 George “Bud” Homsy, University of British Columbia
- 2009 Zhen-Gang Wang, California Institute of Technology
- 2008 Michael F. Doherty, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2007 Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University 2006 Jefferson W. Tester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology