Brenner shared the Nobel medicine prize in 2002 with Robert Horvitz of the United States and Briton John Sulston for their work on genetic regulation of organ development and cell death.

• 布瑞尔与美国科学家罗勃特?何维兹和英国科学家约翰?萨尔顿三人凭借他们在器官发育和细胞死亡方面的遗传基因研究成果一举获得了2002年的诺贝尔医学奖。