Charles S. Mott Prize

The Charles S. Mott Prize was awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation as one of a trio of scientific prizes entirely devoted to cancer research, the other two being the Charles F. Kettering Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize. The prizes, worth US$250,000, were awarded annually between 1979 and 2005. The awards were generally considered the most prestigious in the field.[1][2]

The Mott Prize was awarded for "the most outstanding recent contribution related to the cause or prevention of cancer". In 2006, due to financial pressures on the corporation supporting the Foundation, the three awards were consolidated into a single $250,000 General Motors Cancer Research Award.. In 2006, the first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was Napoleone Ferrara.[3]

Since 2006 no further prizes have been awarded.

Laureates

  • 2005 Gerald Wogan
  • 2004 Charles J. Sherr
  • 2003 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
  • 2002 Richard Peto
  • 2001 Frank E. Speizer, Walter Willett
  • 2000 Bert Vogelstein
  • 1999 Arnold J. Levine
  • 1998 Suzanne Cory, Stanley J. Korsmeyer
  • 1997 M. Judah Folkman
  • 1996 Paul L. Modrich, Richard Kolodner
  • 1995 Frederick Pei Li, Joseph F. Fraumeni
  • 1994 Tony Hunter
  • 1993 Carlo Croce
  • 1992 Brian MacMahon
  • 1991 Peter K. Vogt
  • 1990 Webster K. Cavenee, Raymond L. White
  • 1989 Peter C. Nowell, Janet D. Rowley
  • 1988 Alfred G. Knudson
  • 1987 R. Palmer Beasley, Jesse Summers
  • 1986 Harald zur Hausen
  • 1985 J. Christopher Wagner
  • 1984 Robert C. Gallo
  • 1983 Bruce Ames
  • 1982 Denis P. Burkitt
  • 1981 Takashi Sugimura
  • 1980 James A. Miller, Elizabeth C. Miller
  • 1979 Richard Doll

See also

References

  1. "Laureates: General Motors Cancer Research Awards". Cancer Research. 59 (7 Supplement): 1673s. 1 March 1999. ISSN 0008-5472. 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. "Napoleone Ferrara wins 2006 GM Cancer Research Award". Cancer Biology & Therapy. 5 (7): 708–709. 2006. doi:10.4161/cbt.5.7.3155. PMID 17022136.
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