University of Iowa professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., and Harvard Medical School professor and HHMI investigator Louis Kunkel, Ph.D., are co-recipients of the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology for identifying genetic and molecular causes of muscular dystrophies, a group of disorders in which muscles progressively degenerate.

Considered a highly prestigious award for basic science, the March of Dimes prize includes a cash award of $250,000, shared by the recipients, and a silver medal in the design of the Roosevelt dime, in honor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who founded the March of Dimes.