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American biochemist and physiologist (born 1954)

Linda Watkins
Born	Linda R. Watkins 1954 (1954) Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Scientific career
Fields	Glial cells Pain
Institutions	University of Colorado Boulder

Linda R. Watkins (born 1954) is an American biochemist and physiologist. She discovered glial cells which play a key role in the neuronal treatment of pain.

Since 1988 she has been a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

In 2010, she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research along David Julius and Baruch Minke.

References

"Linda R. Watkins profile". University of Colorado Boulder.
"David Julius, Baruch Minke and Linda Watkins, Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2010". Prince of Asturias Foundation. 2 June 2010.

Laureates of the Prince or Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

1981: Alberto Sols
1982: Manuel Ballester
1983: Luis Antonio Santaló Sors
1984: Antonio Garcia-Bellido
1985: David Vázquez Martínez and Emilio Rosenblueth
1986: Antonio González González
1987: Jacinto Convit and Pablo Rudomín
1988: Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky
1989: Guido Münch
1990: Santiago Grisolía and Salvador Moncada
1991: Francisco Bolívar Zapata
1992: Federico García Moliner
1993: Amable Liñán
1994: Manuel Patarroyo
1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica
1996: Valentín Fuster
1997: Atapuerca research team
1998: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar
1999: Ricardo Miledi and Enrique Moreno González
2000: Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
2001: Craig Venter, John Sulston, Francis Collins, Hamilton Smith, and Jean Weissenbach
2002: Lawrence Roberts, Robert E. Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and Tim Berners-Lee
2003: Jane Goodall
2004: Judah Folkman, Tony Hunter, Joan Massagué, Bert Vogelstein, and Robert Weinberg
2005: Antonio Damasio
2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac
2007: Peter Lawrence and Ginés Morata
2008: Sumio Iijima, Shuji Nakamura, Robert Langer, George M. Whitesides, and Tobin Marks
2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson
2010: David Julius, Baruch Minke, and Linda Watkins
2011: Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, and Giacomo Rizzolatti
2012: Gregory Winter and Richard A. Lerner
2013: Peter Higgs, François Englert, and European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN
2014: Avelino Corma Canós, Mark E. Davis, and Galen D. Stucky

Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
2016: Hugh Herr
2017: Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne, Barry C. Barish, and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
2018: Svante Pääbo
2019: Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz
2020: Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao, and Emmanuel Candès
2021: Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner, Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Derrick Rossi, and Sarah Gilbert
2022: Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Demis Hassabis
2023: Jeffrey I. Gordon, Everett Peter Greenberg, and Bonnie Bassler
2024: Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Joel F. Habener, Jens Juul Holst, and Svetlana Mojsov

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