Linda R. Watkins

American biochemist and physiologist (born 1954)

Glial cells
Pain

InstitutionsUniversity 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.^[1]

In 2010, she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research along David Julius and Baruch Minke.^[2]

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

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

Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research