Charles S. Mott Prize
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The $250,000 Charles S. Mott Prize was awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. The Mott Prize was one of a trio scientific prizes entirely devoted to cancer research (the other prizes being the Charles F. Kettering Prize
and the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize). They were generally considered the most prestigious awards in cancer research. The Mott Prize was awarded for "the most outstanding recent contribution related to the cause or prevention of cancer". The Kettering Prize is devoted to clinical advances in cancer care and the Sloane Prize is devoted to basic research having implications in cancer research. Since 2006, due to financial pressures on the corporation supporting the Foundation, the three awards have been curtailed—causing considerable consternation among cancer scientists.
Charles S. Mott Prize Recipients:
Kettering Prize
The Kettering Prize was given for the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer.This award was named in honor of Charles F. Kettering, inventor, former General Motors Director, and pioneer of the General Motors Research Laboratories.Past winners are:*2005 Angela...
and the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize). They were generally considered the most prestigious awards in cancer research. The Mott Prize was awarded for "the most outstanding recent contribution related to the cause or prevention of cancer". The Kettering Prize is devoted to clinical advances in cancer care and the Sloane Prize is devoted to basic research having implications in cancer research. Since 2006, due to financial pressures on the corporation supporting the Foundation, the three awards have been curtailed—causing considerable consternation among cancer scientists.
Charles S. Mott Prize Recipients:
- 2005 Gerald Wogan http://olw.mit.edu/profile.olw?3
- 2004 Charles J. Sherr http://www.hhmi.org:80/research/investigators/sherr.html
- 2003 Yuan ChangYuan ChangYuan Chang is an American virologist and pathologist who co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the seven known human cancer viruses....
, Patrick S. MoorePatrick S. MoorePatrick S. Moore is an American virologist and epidemiologist who co-discovered together with his wife, Yuan Chang, two different human viruses causing the AIDS-related cancer Kaposi's sarcoma and the skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma... - 2002 Richard PetoRichard PetoSir Richard Peto FRS is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University....
- 2001 Frank E. Speizer, Walter WillettWalter WillettWalter Willett, MD, DrPH., is an American physician and nutrition researcher. Currently, Willett is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health...
- 2000 Bert VogelsteinBert VogelsteinBert Vogelstein is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins University. He clarified the role of the gene p53, which repairs DNA in dividing cells and destroys the cell if its DNA cannot be repaired. Damaged p53 is responsible for half of all cancers...
- 1999 Arnold J. LevineArnold J. LevineArnold J. Levine, is a United States Molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1998 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry and was thefirst recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research in 2001 for his discovery of the tumor suppressor protein p53...
http://www.bcrfcure.org/rese_meet_levine.html - 1998 Suzanne CorySuzanne CorySuzanne Cory, AC, FAA, FRS is an Australian biologist.Cory is the current President of the Australian Academy of Science. She is the first-elected female President of the Academy and took office on 7 May 2010 for a five year term...
, Stanley J. KorsmeyerStanley J. KorsmeyerDr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis... - 1997 M. Judah Folkman
- 1996 Paul L. ModrichPaul L. ModrichPaul L. Modrich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair....
, Richard D. Kolodner - 1995 Frederick Pei LiFrederick Pei LiFrederick Pei Li is an Chinese-American physician.Frederick Pei Li was born in Canton, China , and raised in New York City where his parents operated a Chinese restaurant. He is a pioneer researcher of cancer among genetically predisposed families described as Li-Fraumeni syndrome. He received a...
, Joseph F. Fraumeni - 1994 Tony Hunter
- 1993 Carlo Croce http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7035/full/nj7035-938c.html
- 1992 Brian MacMahonBrian MacMahonBrian MacMahon was a British-American epidemiologist who chaired the Harvard School of Public Health from 1958 until 1988...
- 1991 Peter K. Vogt http://www.scripps.edu/news/endeavor/endeavor1.1/vogt.html
- 1990 Webster K. Cavenee, Raymond L. White http://www.galloresearch.org/site/WhiteLab/section.php?id=192
- 1989 Peter C. Nowell, Janet D. Rowley
- 1988 Alfred Knudsen
- 1987 R. Palmer Beasley, Jesse Summers
- 1986 Harald zur HausenHarald zur HausenHarald zur Hausen is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.-Biography:Zur Hausen was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, went to...
:de:Harald zur Hausen http://www.cancerworld.org/CancerWorld/getStaticModFile.aspx?id=717 - 1985 J. Christopher Wagner
- 1984 Robert C. Gallo
- 1983 Bruce AmesBruce AmesBruce Nathan Ames is an American biochemist. He is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute...
- 1982 Denis P. Burkitt
- 1981 Takashi Sugimura
- 1980 James A. Miller, Elizabeth C. Miller http://www.bookrags.com/biography/elizabeth-c-miller-and-james-a-miller-woc/
- 1979 Sir Richard DollRichard DollSir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...