King Faisal Prize

Award process

Designation of subjects

Nomination

Selection

Prizes

1. A Certificate written in Arabic Diwani calligraphy and signed by the Chairman of the Prize board, His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal Bin Abd Al-Aziz, enclosed in a binder of the finest leather inscribed with the winner’s name and a summary of his/her work which qualified him/her for the prize.
2. A 24 carat 200 gram gold medal, with one side bearing the image of King Faisal, and the prize category written in Arabic, and the other holding the logo of the prize and the prize category in English.
3. A check of SAR 750 thousand, distributed equally between the winners if they are more than one.

Country standings

Winners by subject

Service to Islam

Year	Branch	Country	Winner name	Winner title
1979	Service to Islam		Sayyid Abul Ala'a AI-Moudoodi	Maulana
1980	Service to Islam		Sayyid Abul-Hasan Ali Al-Hasani Al-Nadawi	Mufakkir-e-Islam
1980	Service to Islam		Mohammad Natsir	Doctor
1981	Service to Islam		King Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	His Majesty
1982	Service to Islam		Abdulaziz bin Baz	Shaikh
1983	Service to Islam	Egypt|1972MYSSAU Islamic studies Year Branch Topic Country Winner name Winner title 1979 Islamic studies Studies dealing with the influence of Muslim scholars on European civilization Fuat Sezgin Professor 1980 Islamic studies Studies on the hadith of Muhammad Muhammad Mustafa Azmi Doctor 1981 Islamic studies Studies on the role of Shari'a in the restoration of the society - Not awarded ----- 1982 Islamic studies Contemporary economic problems from an Islamic perspective Muhammad Najatuallah Siddiqui Professor 1983 Islamic studies Studies on the Quran Egypt|1972SYRSAUEGYEGY Arabic language and literature Year Branch Topic Country Winner name Winner title 1979 Arabic language and literature Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry - Not awarded - 1980 Arabic language and literature Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry Ihsan Abbas Professor 1980 Arabic language and literature Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry Egypt|1972 Medicine Year Branch Topic Country Winner name Winner title 1982 Medicine Primary health care David C. Morley Professor 1983 Medicine Malaria Wallace Peters Professor 1984 Medicine Diarrheal diseases Michael Field Professor 1984 Medicine Diarrheal diseases William B. Greenough III Professor 1984 Medicine Diarrheal diseases John S. Fordtran Professor 1985 Medicine Viral hepatitis R. Palmer Beasley Professor 1985 Medicine Viral hepatitis Mario Rizzetto Professor 1986 Medicine Diabetes mellitus Albert Renold Professor 1986 Medicine Diabetes mellitus Lelio Orci Professor 1986 Medicine Diabetes mellitus Gian Franco Bottazzo - 1987 Medicine Prevention of blindness Barrie Russell Jones Professor 1988 Medicine Leukemia Melvin F. Greaves 1988 Medicine Leukemia Janet D. Rawley Professor 1989 Medicine Infertility Robert G. Edwards Professor 1989 Medicine Infertility Luigi Mastroianni Jr. Professor 1990 Medicine Schistosomiasis Anthony E. Butterworth Professor 1990 Medicine Schistosomiasis André Capron Professor 1991 Medicine Biochemical aspects of mental health - Not awarded - 1992 Medicine Coronary artery disease Attilio Maseri Professor 1993 Medicine Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Professor 1993 Medicine Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases Jean-Claude Chermann Professor 1993 Medicine Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases Luc Montagnier Professor 1994 Medicine Medical applications of genetic engineering Robert Williamson Professor 1994 Medicine Medical applications of genetic engineering W. French Anderson Professor 1995 Medicine Molecular immunology Tak W. Mak Professor 1995 Medicine Molecular immunology Mark M. Davis Professor 1995 Medicine Molecular immunology Gregory P. Winter Sir 1996 Medicine [Disease Disease management (health)|management (health)|Management] of the premature infant Tetsurō Fujiwara Professor 1996 Medicine Management of the premature infant Bengt Robertson Professor 1997 Medicine Degenerative diseases of the nervous system Konrad Beyreuther Professor 1997 Medicine Degenerative diseases of the nervous system James F. Gusella Professor 1997 Medicine Degenerative diseases of the nervous system Colin L. Masters Professor 1998 Medicine Control of communicable diseases Robert H. Purcell Professor 1998 Medicine Control of communicable diseases John L. Gerin Professor 1999 Medicine Allergic diseases Stephen T. Holgate 1999 Medicine Allergic diseases Professor 2000 Medicine Ageing Cynthia Jane Kenyon Professor 2001 Medicine Organ transplantation Norman E. Shumway Professor 2001 Medicine Organ transplantation Roy Calne Professor 2001 Medicine Organ transplantation Thomas Starzl Professor 2002 Medicine Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure Professor 2002 Medicine Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure Eugene Braunwald Professor 2003 Medicine Breast cancer Umberto Veronesi Professor 2003 Medicine Breast cancer Axel Ullrich Professor 2004 Medicine Invasive cardiology Ulrich Sigwart Professor 2005 Medicine Tobacco risks on human health Richard Doll Sir 2005 Medicine Tobacco risks on human health Richard Peto Sir 2006 Biology of vascular inflammation Jr. Professor 2007 Medicine Prostate cancer Fernand Labrie Professor 2007 Medicine Prostate cancer Professor 2008 Medicine Trauma management Donald Trunkey Professor 2008 Medicine Trauma management Jr. Professor 2009 Medicine Molecular targeted therapy Ronald Levy Professor 2010 Medicine Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease Professor 2010 Medicine Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease Johanne Martel-Pelletier Professor 2010 Medicine Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease Professor 2011 Medicine Stem cell therapy James A. Thomson Professor 2011 Medicine Stem cell therapy Shinya Yamanaka Professor 2012 Medicine Minimal invasive fetal management Professor 2012 Medicine Minimal invasive fetal management Professor 2013 Medicine The genetics of obesity Jeffrey M. Friedman Professor 2013 Medicine The genetics of obesity Douglas L. Coleman Professor 2014 Medicine Non-invasive diagnosis of fetal diseases Yuk Ming Dennis Lo Professor 2015 Medicine Intestinal microflora and human health Jeffrey Ivan Gordon Professor 2016 Medicine Clinical application of next generation genetics Professor 2016 Medicine Clinical application of next generation genetics Professor 2017 Medicine Biologic therapeutics in autoimmune diseases Tadamitsu Kishimoto Professor 2018 Medicine Immunotherapy for cancer James P. Allison Professor 2019 Medicine Bone biology and osteoporosis Steven L. Teitelbaum Professor 2019 Medicine Bone biology and osteoporosis Bjorn Reino Olsen Professor 2020 Medicine Haemoglobinopathies Stuart H. Orkin Professor 2021 Medicine Regenerative medicine in neurological conditions Stephen Mark Strittmatter Professor 2021 Medicine Regenerative medicine in neurological conditions Robin James Milroy Franklin Professor 2022 Medicine Gene editing technologies David Ruchien Liu Professor 2023 Medicine Pandemics and vaccine development Dan Barouch Professor 2023 Medicine Pandemics and vaccine development Sarah Catherine Gilbert Professor 2024 Medicine Management of Peripheral Disabilities Jerry R. Mendell Professor 2025 Medicine Cellular Therapy Michel Sadelain Professor 2026 Medicine Discoveries Transforming Obesity Therapeutics Svetlana Mojsov Professor Science Year Branch Topic Country Winner name Winner title 1984 Science Physics Heinrich Rohrer Professor 1984 Science Physics Gerd Binnig Professor 1985 Science - - Not awarded - 1986 Science Biochemistry Michael John Berridge Sir 1987 Science Mathematics Michael Atiyah Sir 1988 Science Biology Ricardo Miledi Professor 1988 Science Biology Pierre Chambon Professor 1989 Science Physics Theodor W. Hänsch Professor 1989 Science Physics / Ahmed Hassan Zewail Professor 1990 Science Chemistry Raymond Urgel Lemieux Professor 1990 Science Chemistry / Mostafa El-Sayed Professor 1990 Science Chemistry Frank Albert Cotton Professor 1991 Science Mathematics - Not awarded - 1992 Science Biology South Africa|1928USAGERUSAUSAUSAUSAUKUSAUSAUKGERJPNUSAUSAUSACANUSARUSJPNUSAUKUSAAUTUSAUKINDUKGERill|Rüdiger Wehner|deRUSUKAUSITAUSAUSAUSAHUNAUTCANGERSUIJORUSAUSAUKSUINEDUKUSAUSAUSAUKUKTUNUSAUSAUSAJAPUSA