Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) hosted the 2021 Double Helix Medals dinner (DHMD) on November 17, 2021, raising a record $5 million to support biology research. After going virtual for the 2020 ceremony, guests of the sixteenth annual gala were excited to be back in person this year in New York City. Lesley Stahl, the American television journalist who emceed the dinner, said "there is still nothing like being together under the whale in the Hall of Ocean Life at the Museum of Natural History!" The event honored three people: baseball legend Reggie Jackson and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. cofounders Leonard Schleifer and George D