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Evans<\/a>, professor and head of the Gene Expression  Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, was awarded the  prestigious Harvey Prize in Human Health from the Technion-Israel Institute for  Technology, Israel&#8217;s premier science and  technology university. <\/p>\n<p>He is honored for &#8220;his discovery of the super-family of  genes encoding nuclear hormone receptors and the elucidation of their universal  mode of action, a process that governs how lipophilic hormones, vitamins, and  drugs regulate gene expression and affect virtually every developmental and  metabolic pathway.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Charles L. Bennett, a professor in the Department of  Physics and Astronomy at John   Hopkins University,  will also be awarded a Harvey Prize in Science and Technology for his  contribution to the precise determination of the age, composition and curvature  of the universe. <\/p>\n<p>The prize, established in 1972 by the late Leo M. Harvey of Los Angeles recognizes  breakthroughs in science technology. The honor comes with a cash award of  $75,000 and the opportunity to lecture at the Technion.<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, Dr. Evans discovered how cortisol, a steroid  hormone that controls sugar metabolism, directly regulates the activity of  genes. Scientists had known since the early 1900s that hormones directed organ  physiology, but they had no idea how the minute amounts of hormones produced by  the body actually triggered the changes. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Evans trailblazing discovery of the steroid receptor  provided the much-needed code to decipher how hormones control genes and  created powerful new technologies for drug discovery. Since then, he and others  have turned up a family of nearly 50 related nuclear receptors that function as  on\/off switches for genes. <\/p>\n<p>Since nuclear receptors wield such physiological power,  their discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of human disease and is  already yielding benefits in new drugs for cancer, inflammation, osteoporosis,  type II diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases. <\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Los Angeles,  Dr. Evans earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in bacteriology and his doctorate in  microbiology and immunology from the University  of California, Los Angeles. After completing a postdoctoral  research fellowship at Rockefeller University in New York,  he was recruited to the Salk Institute in La Jolla.  A faculty member at Salk since 1978, Dr. Evans is a Howard Hughes Medical  Institute Investigator and holds the Salk Institute&#8217;s March of Dimes Chair in  Developmental and Molecular Biology. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Evans is the recipient of many awards and honors,  including the Gairdner Award, Canada&#8217;s premier scientific award, earlier this  year and the Grande M\u00e9daille d&#8217;Or (Grand Gold Medal), France&#8217;s  highest scientific honor, in 2004. He shared the Lasker Award for Basic Medical  Research with two other scientists in the fall of 2004. He has been elected to  the National Academy of Science, Institute  of Medicine, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. <\/p>\n<p>He is also the past recipient of the California Scientist  of the Year Award; General Motors Sloan Award for Cancer Research; March of  Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology; Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for  Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Research; and the Keio Prize in  Medicine. Dr. Evans&#8217; published studies are among the most frequently cited by  the scientific community worldwide, according to the nonprofit Institute for  Scientific Information. <\/p>\n<p>The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California  is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to fundamental discoveries  in the life sciences, the improvement of human health, and the training of  future generations of researchers. Jonas Salk, M.D., whose polio vaccine all  but eradicated the crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened the  Institute in 1965 with a gift of land from the City of San Diego and the financial support of the  March of Dimes.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[91],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-1925","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-ronald-evans"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ronald M. 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