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Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize

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The Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was a $250,000 award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for outstanding oncological research.[1][2]

The prize was awarded annually from 1979 to 2005. Of the winners, 15 out of 37 have gone on to win either a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

in 2006, due to budget constraints, the Alfred P. Sloan Jr. prize, the Charles K. Kettering prize, and the Charles S. Mott Prize were consolidated into a single General Motors Cancer Research Award which also had a value of $250,000.[3] The first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was Napoleone Ferrara.[4]

After 2006 no more prizes were awarded.[citation needed]

Laureates

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Year Winner
2005 Roger D. Kornberg (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006)[5]
2004 Thomas J. Kelly[6]
Bruce Stillman[7]
2003 Pierre Chambon
Ronald M. Evans
2002 John E. Sulston (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)
Robert H. Waterston
2001 Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009)
2000 Avram Hershko (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004)
Alexander Varshavsky
1999 Robert G. Roeder[8]
Robert Tjian[9]
1998 H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)
1997 Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
1996 Mark M. Davis
Tak Wah Mak
1995 Ed Harlow
1994 Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)
Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)
1993 Hidesaburo Hanafusa
1992 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
1991 Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
1990 Mark Ptashne
1989 Donald Metcalf
Leo Sachs
1988 Yasutomi Nishizuka
1987 Robert Allan Weinberg
1986 Phillip Allen Sharp (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993)
1985 Robert Schimke
1984 John Michael Bishop (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)
Harold Elliot Varmus (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)
1983 Raymond L. Erikson
1982 Stanley Cohen (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986)
1981 César Milstein (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984)
Wallace P. Rowe
1980 Isaac Berenblum
1979 George Klein

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Laureates: General Motors Cancer Research Awards". Cancer Research. 59 (7 Supplement): 1673s. 1 March 1999. ISSN 0008-5472. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  2. ^ "GM Cancer Previous Prize Winners". General Motors. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  3. ^ Katterman, Lee (1991-10-13). "Public Awareness Of Cancer Research: The Driving Force Behind GM's Awards". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  4. ^ Jones A (July 2006). "Napoleone Ferrara wins 2006 GM Cancer Research Award". Cancer Biology & Therapy. 5 (7): 708–709. doi:10.4161/cbt.5.7.3155. PMID 17022136.
  5. ^ "The 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Laureate". Archived from the original on 19 October 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Center News Magazine: Thomas Kelly Wins General Motors Cancer Research Award | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center". Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. June 9, 2004. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Cold Spring Harbor Scientist Bruce Stillman Awarded Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. June 10, 2004. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Laureates' Lectures". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
  9. ^ "Laureates' Lectures". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2012-09-09.