[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=""]Salk Institute for Biological Studies View the 2025 Press Release[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""]While studying how certain cancer-causing viruses alter cells, Dr. Tony Hunter uncovered a previously unknown cellular process, tyrosine phosphorylation. His work provided the molecular blueprint for targeted cancer therapies, enabling the development of more than...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]View the 2024 Press Release UCLA Health[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dr. Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D., a UCLA oncologist and researcher, transformed breast cancer treatment through his pioneering identification of the HER2/neu oncogene, amplified in roughly a quarter to a third of breast cancers. His seminal work revealed that...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=""]View the 2023 Press Release Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""]Renowned cancer research leaders, composed of NFCR’s blue-ribbon Prize selection committee, elected Professor Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D. for his seminal scientific contributions demonstrating the flow of information and signaling between tumor cells and the...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]View the 2022 Press Release View Current Profile View Photos from the 2022 Ceremony Director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The 2022 Prize Selection Committee selected...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]View the 2021 Press Release View Photos from the 2021 Ceremony Professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The 2021 Szent-Györgyi Prize was awarded to Mark M. Davis, Ph.D., alongside Tak W. Mak, Ph.D., for their breakthrough discoveries of the structure of...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]View the 2021 Press Release View Photos from the 2021 Ceremony Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and university professor at the University of Toronto[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The 2021 Szent-Györgyi Prize was awarded to Tak W. Mak, Ph.D., alongside Mark M. Davis, Ph.D., for their breakthrough discoveries...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]View the 2020 Press Release View Photos from the 2020 Ceremony Distinguished Professor and Rose C. Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The 2020 Szent-Györgyi Prize’s independent selection committee was unanimous in its decision to recognize Dr. Horwitz’s...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]View the 2019 Press Release View Photos from the 2019 Ceremony Chief of the Surgery Branch at the U.S. National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda Maryland The 2019 Szent-Györgyi Prize’s selection committee was unanimous in its decision to recognize Dr. Rosenberg’s contributions for not...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 12, 2019 CONTACT: National Foundation for Cancer Research Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Global Programs & Communications E-mail: bgillenwater@nfcr.org / Phone: 301-961-9161 Awardee Has Remained at the Vanguard of Various Cancer Immunotherapy Fields for over Four Decades ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research...
https://youtu.be/S4bAu0i9i4w The National Foundation for Cancer Research’s (NFCR) annual marquee event was held in Washington, DC on Saturday evening, May 5th. The 2018 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research ceremony and dinner occasioned much, including a gathering of NFCR principals and scientists, communication of the...
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