Winners of the GM Prizes for Cancer Research
Charles F. Kettering Prize:
Herman D. Suit, M.D., D. Phil.
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Demonstration of the effectiveness of combined regional resection and
radiotherapy for the non-amputative treatment of patients with extremity
sarcomas
Charles S. Mott Prize:
Judah Folkman, M.D.
Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Children's Hospital
Fundamental contributions to the field of tumor angiogenesis
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize:
Paul Nurse, Ph.D.,
FRS
Director General
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
London
Discovery of the first cyclin-dependent kinase and the demonstration
of its role as the prime regulator of the cell cycle
Announcement
of winners at the GMCRF web site.
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