The recipients to date are as follows:
| 1978 | Nicolae and Maya Simionescu | Bucharest and Yale University |
| 1979 | James Bassingthwaighte | University of Washington |
| 1980 | Solbert Permutt | Johns Hopkins University |
| 1981 | Gilbert Thompson | Hammersmith Hospital |
| 1982 | Christian Crone | University of Copenhagen |
| 1983 | Norman Staub | University of California |
| 1984 | James and Una Ryan | University of Miami |
| 1985 | Earl Wood | Mayo Clinic |
| 1986 | Dirk Brutsaert | University of Antwerp |
| 1987 | Daniel Steinberg | University of California |
| 1988 | Aubrey Taylor | University of South Alabama |
| 1989 | Francis Chinard | New Jersey Medical School |
| 听 | Ian Phillips | University of Florida |
| 1990 | Barbara Meyrick | Vanderbilt University |
| 1991 | Jos茅 Jalife | State University of New York, Syracuse |
| 1992 | Judah Folkman | The Children's Hospital, Boston |
| 1993 | Arthur Brown | Baylor College of Medicine |
| 1994 | John B. Barlow | University of Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| 1995 | Andrew and Avril Somlyo | University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 1996 | Robert Furchgott | State University of New York |
| 听 | Salvador Moncada | University College, London |
| 1997 | Russell Ross | University of Washington |
| 1998 | Eduardo Marban | Johns Hopkins University |
| 1999 | Victor J. Dzau | Harvard Medical School |
| 2000 | Robert J. Lefkowitz | Duke University Medical School |
| 2001 | Mark C. Fishman | Harvard Medical School |
| 2002 | Salim Yusuf | McMaster University |
| 2003 | Eric N. Olson | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2004 | Roberto Bolli | University of Louisville |
| 2005 | Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr | Harvard Medical School |
| 2006 | Peter Carmeliet | University of Leuven |
| 2007 | Not Awarded | |
| 2009 | Peter Libby | Harvard Medical School |
| 2010 | Marlene Rabinovitch | Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 2011 | Shaun R. Coughlin | University of California, San Francisco |
| 2012 | Garret A. FitzGerald | Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2013 | David Ginsburg | University of Michigan |
| 2014 | Jeffrey Robbins | University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
| 2015 | Jeffery Molkentin | University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
| 2016 | Brian K. Kobilka | Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 2017 | John McMurray | University of Glasgow |
| 2018 | Dan M. Roden | Vanderbilt School of Medicine |
| 听 | Nabil G. Seidah | Montreal Clinical Research Institute |
| 2019 | Joseph A. Hill |
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2020 | David A. Kass | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 2021 | Vasan Ramachandran | Boston University School of Medicine |
| 2022 | Barbara Casadei | University of Oxford |
| 2023 | David G Harrison | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |