Research into DNA repair and the DNA damage response scooped up scientific accolades this year, with the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award going to Stephen Elledge "for discoveries concerning the DNA-damage response" in September, followed in October by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' honoring Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar with the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair."