His list of Prizes and awards includes:

1970 NIH AID Career Development Award
1978 Parke Davis Award
1985 Elected Foreign Member, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1986 Recipient of Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry
1986 Decorated as oficial de La Orden de San Carlos by the President of Colombia
1989 Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair in Chemistry
1990 Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, Karolinska Institute
1990 John A. Muntz Memorial Prize, Albany Medical College, New York
1990 San Marino Prize, Republic of San Marino
1990 The Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the FASEB Wellcome Visiting Professor Award in Basic Medical Science
1991 The College De France Lectureship, College De France, Paris
1991 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in Chemistry, Washington, D.C.
1992 CIBA-Geigy Drew Prize in Chemical Science, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
1993 Hyp J. Dauben Award in Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1994 Humboldt Research Award, Bonn Germany
1994/95 The Wolf Prize in Chemistry
1996 California Scientist of the Year Award
1999 William B Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, New York, NY
1999 Windaus-Medal/Award, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen Germany
2001 Honorary Doctorate of Science Award Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel
2002 Doctor of Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2002 Scientist of the Year Award, ARCS Foundation, Inc., San Diego, CA
2002 President’s Medal, University of California
2003 Paul Ehrlich-and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 Honorary Doctorate Degree, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
2004 Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
2005 AAAS Fellow
2005 DART/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award in Basic Biotechnology, New York, NY
2006 Distinguished Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York

Prof. Lerner is a member in the following societies and boards:

Member Phi Eta Sigma
Member Alpha Omega Alpha
Member American Society of Nephrology
Member American Association of Immunologists
Member American Society for Experimental Pathology
Member American Society of Microbiology
Member New York Academy of Sciences
Member Biophysical Society
Chairman, International Symposium on the Molecular Basis of Cell-Cell Interaction (1977)
Consultant, Special Virus Cancer Program, National Cancer Institute
Ad hoc Member of Molecular Biology Study Section
Member Pluto Society
Fellowship Screening Committee of the California Division, ACS
Charter Member, American Society for Virology
Member Institute of Medicine Ad hoc Committee of New Research Opportunities in Immunology, National Academy of Sciences
Member Organizing Committee for "Modern Approaches to Vaccines", Cold Spring Harbor (1983)
Member Cancer Preclinical Program Project Review Committee, National Cancer Institute
Member Scientific Policy Advisory Committee, Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden (1991)
Member Scientific Advisory Board Economic Development Board, Singapore (1991)
Member National Academy of Science, USA (1991)
Trustee, The Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc. (1992)
Member Advisory Board Chemical and Engineering News, Washington, DC (1994-1996)
Member ETH Institute of Biotechnology Advisory Board, Zurich Switzerland (1994)
Member Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Scientific Policy Committee, Stanford, CA (1995-1998)
Member Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Scientific Advisory Board, Houston, Texas (1996)
Member College of Chemistry Advisory Board, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (1996)
Member California Council on Science and Technology Board of Directors, Newport Beach, CA (1996-1997)
Member, Advisor Steering Group for Chemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (1996)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the American Peptide Society Journal, Tucson, Arizona (1997)
Member, Academic Committee of the Board of Governors of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (1998)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board for Accounts of Chemical Research Journal, Los Angeles, CA (1998-2001)
Member, International Board of Governors, The Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv, Israel (1998)
Chairman, Governor’s Counsil on Bioscience, Governor Gray Davis, Sacramento, CA (1999)
Member, The U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, Washington, DC (1999).
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA (2000)

Prof. Lerner is serving on the Editorial Boards of the following journals:

Journal of Virology
Molecular Biology and Medicine
Vaccine
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Drug Targeting and Delivery
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
Molecular Medicine
Catalysis Technology
Angewandte Chemie

Prof. Lerner has published over 400 scientific papers and several books and has been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences. Under his leadership, The Scripps Research Institute has tripled its laboratory space and quadrupled its staff levels, making it among the largest nonprofit biomedical research organizations in the world. He also oversaw the establishment of a sister research campus – Scripps Florida – in Palm Beach County.

K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize winner, Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

The current research activities of Prof. Sharpless include modular click chemistry, in situ click assembly in biological hosts, homogeneous oxidation catalysts and transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric processes.

Having completed a B.A. at Dartmouth College (T. A. Spencer) in 1963 he went on to complete his Ph.D. at Stanford University (E. E. van Tamelen) in 1968 continuing on to postdoctoral research there in 1968 (J. P. Collman) and at Harvard University in 1969 (K. Bloch).

Dr. Sharpless’s past and present appointments to Chemistry Faculties include:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970–7, 1980–90
• Stanford University, 1977–80
• The Scripps Research Institute, W. M. Keck Prof, 1990–
• Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology of TSRI, 1996–
• Kitasato University, Visiting Professor, 2002–

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1984.
• The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1984.
• The National Academy of Sciences, 1985.
• The Royal Society of Chemistry (Hon.), Great Britain, 1998.
• The Kitasato Institute (Hon.), Japan, 2002.

• Dartmouth College, 1995
• Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1995
• Technical University, Munich, 1995
• Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 1996
• Wesleyan University, 1999
• Distinguished Professor (Hon), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2002

• Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis, 1983
• Arthur C. Cope Scholar, 1986
• Harrison Howe Award, Rochester Section, 1987
• Remsen Award, Maryland Section, 1989
• Arthur C. Cope Award, 1992
• San Diego Scientist of the Year, San Diego Section, 1992
• Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, 1997
• Top 75 Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise, 1998
• Richards Medal, Northeastern Section, 1998
• Carothers Award, Delaware Section, 1999

• Allan Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club, 1985
• Dr. Paul Janssen Prize, Belgium, 1986 (1st recipient)
• Prelog Medal, ETH, Switzerland, 1988
• Sammet Award, Göthe University, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1988
• Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists, 1988
• Scheele Medal, Swedish Academy of Pharma Sciences, 1991
• Tetrahedron Prize (with Noyori), 1993
• Centenary Lectureship Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1993
• Cliff Hamilton Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1995
• King Faisal Prize for Science, Saudi Arabia, 1995
• Microbial Chemistry Medal, Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, 1997
• Harvey Science & Technology Prize, Israel Inst of Tech, 1998
• Rylander Award, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, 2000
• Chemical Sciences Award, National Academy of Sciences, 2000
• Chiralty Medal, Italian Chemical Society, 2000
• Rhone Poulenc Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000
• Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 2001
• Wolf Prize (with Kagan & Noyori), 2001
• John Scott Medal Award, City of Philadelphia, 2001
• ISI Highly Cited Researchers Database, original member, 2001
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Knowles & Noyori), 2001

He is serving on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of the following journals:

• Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
• Chirality
• Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development
• Current Drug Discovery Techniques
• Enantiomer
• Organic Letters
• Synlett