[caption id="attachment_25667" align="alignnone" width="1050"] 2010 Szent-Györgyi Prize Selection Committee Member Webster Cavenee, Ph.D., Winner Peter Vogt, Ph.D., and Selection Committee Chair Ronald DePinho, M.D.[/caption] The term “game changer” didn’t come into English usage until 1993, and since then it has been driven into the ground from...
[caption id="attachment_25707" align="alignnone" width="1024"] 2015 Szent-Györgyi Prize Winner Frederick Alt, Ph.D., with Selection Committee Co-Chair Sujuan Ba, Ph.D., and Member Webster Cavenee, Ph.D.[/caption] Ask 100 physicians why they got into medicine and you’ll get 100 different answers: Some take the noble route and want to help...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="25757" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]In 2016, archeologists working in the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa found a piece of foot bone belonging to a hominid dating back 1.6 to 1.8 million years. This alone would create a buzz among scientists. But it was what...
Dr. Hall and many other scientist’s innovative research would not be possible without support and funding from private foundations such as the National Foundation for Cancer Research. See why Dr. Hall believes funding plays such an important role in cancer research....
“Tumors are wounds that don’t heal,” says Harold Dvorak, M.D., and if that sounds like an overly simplification, it is a foregone conclusion that some of the most complicated problems have very simple beginnings. A scientists funded by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) from...
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...
[caption id="attachment_25675" align="alignnone" width="1050"] 2018 Szent-Györgyi Prize Selection Committee Co-Chair Sujuan Ba, Ph.D., Winners John T. Schiller, Ph.D., and Douglas R. Lowy, Ph.D., and Selection Committee Chair Michael N. Hall, Ph.D.[/caption] When Douglas R. Lowy, M.D., and John T. Schiller, Ph.D., receive the 2018 Albert Szent-Györgyi...
[caption id="attachment_25678" align="alignnone" width="1050"] 2017 Szent-Györgyi Prize Winner Michael N. Hall, Ph.D., with Selection Committee Chair Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., and Co-Chair Sujuan Ba, Ph.D.[/caption] The discovery of rapamycin in 1972 did not create major waves in the oncology community. But in 1989, Michael N. Hall, Ph.D.,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15, 2018 CONTACT: Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Global Programs & Communications E-mail: bgillenwater@nfcr.org First Occasion for Award to Recognize Extraordinary Contributions in Cancer Prevention, Role of Vaccines BETHESDA, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) announced today that the 2018 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress...
Learn about the Vitamin-C studying, Nobel-Prize winning co-founder of the National Foundation for Cancer Research, Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi....
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