Stephen Elledge (BS, '78) received a 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Elledge was honored at a gala on December 4, 2016, in Mountain View, California.

He also received a University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award in 2017, received a College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Alumni Achievement Award in 2013, and was the keynote speaker for the Department of Chemistry’s convocation in 2011.

Elledge is the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and serves as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.