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The Switzer Prize

The Switzer Prize - 2020

Irma and Norman Switzer

Irma and Norman Switzer

The Switzer Prize is named in recognition of Irma and Norman Switzer, a Pacific Palisades couple who bequeathed a major gift to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Friends remembered them as humble people who lived modest lives and liked to work with their hands.
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The Switzer Prize

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The Switzer Prize recognizes discoveries in basic research in the biological and biomedical sciences that have the potential to inspire transformative breakthroughs in medicine.

It is awarded annually to an individual investigator whose recent work has revealed new paradigms, illuminated biological processes or pathways, or explained the origins of pathologies or diseases.
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2019 Recipient

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Zhijian ‘James’ Chen won the 2019 Switzer Prize, which recognizes excellence in basic biological science. Dr. Zhijian “James” Chen’s group has been instrumental in the identification of immune response pathways that have significantly added to scientists’ understanding of how these pathways work.

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