text: Past recipients of the Lilly Award:
  *1935 – Willard Myron Allen
  *1939 – George Wald
  *1941 – David Rittenberg
  *1942 – Earl A. Evans, Jr.
  *1943 – Herbert E. Carter
  *1944 – Joseph S. Fruton
  *1946 – John D. Ferry
  *1947 – Sidney Colowick
  *1948 – Dilworth Wayne Woolley
  *1951 – John M. Buchanan
  *1953 – Nathan O. Kaplan
  *1954 – Harvey A. Itano
  *1955 – William F. Neuman
  *1956 – Robert A. Alberty
  *1957 – Harold A. Scheraga
  *1958 – Lester J. Reed
  *1959 – Paul Berg
  *1960 – James D. Watson
  *1962 – Jerard Hurwitz
  *1963 – William P. Jencks
  *1964 – Bruce N. Ames
  *1965 – Gerald M. Edelman
  *1966 – Phillips W. Robbins
  *1967 – Gordon G. Hammes
  *1968 – Charles C. Richardson
  *1969 – Mario R. Capecchi
  *1970 – Lubert Stryer
  *1972 – Bruce M. Alberts
  *1974 – James Dahlberg
  *1975 – Mark Ptashne
  *1976 – Joan A. Steitz
  *1977 – Robert G. Roeder
  *1978 – Charles R. Cantor
  *1979 – Christopher T. Walsh
  *1980 – Phillip A. Sharp
  *1981 – Roger D. Kornberg
  *1982 – Harold M. Weintraub
  *1983 – Richard Axel
  *1984 – David V. Goeddel
  *1985 – Gerald M. Rubin
  *1986 – James E. Rothman
  *1987 – Jacqueline K. Barton
  *1988 – Peter Walter
  *1990 – George L. McLendon
  *1991 – Peter G. Schultz
  *1992 – William DeGrado
  *1993 – Stuart L. Schreiber
  *1994 – Peter S. Kim
  *1995 – Jeremy Berg
  *1996 – Gregory L. Verdine
  *1997 – Alanna Schepartz
  *1998 – John Kuriyan
  *1999 – Chaitan Khosla
  *2000 – Xiaodong Wang
  *2001 – Jennifer Doudna
  *2002 – Kevan M. Shokat
  *2003 – Andreas Matouschek
  *2004 – Benjamin Cravatt III
  *2006 – Linda Hsieh-Wilson
  *2007 – Anna K. Mapp
  *2008 – Paul J. Hergenrother
  *2009 – Scott K. Silverman
  *2010 – Alice Y. Ting
  *2011 – Nathanael Gray
  *2012 – Christopher J. Chang
  *2016 – Elizabeth Nolan
  *2017 – Howard C. Hang
  *2018 – Bradley L. Pentelute 
  *2019 – Neal Devaraj
  *2020 – Yimon Aye
  *2021 – Jordan L. Meier 
  *2022 – Lingyin Li
  *2023 – Polly Fordyce