Kettering Prize
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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:
This award was named in honor of Charles F. Kettering
Charles Kettering
Charles Franklin Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive inventions were the electrical starting motor and...
, inventor, former General Motors Director, and pioneer of the General Motors Research Laboratories.
Past winners are:
- 2005 Angela H. Brodie
- 2004 Robert S. LangerRobert S. LangerRobert S. Langer is an American engineer and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the department of chemical engineering and the department of...
- 2003 V. Craig JordanV. Craig JordanVirgil Craig Jordan, OBE is a scientist specializing in drugs for breast cancer treatment and prevention...
- 2002 Brian J. DrukerBrian DrukerBrian J. Druker is a physician-scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is the director of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine...
and Nicholas B. Lydon - 2001 David E. KuhlDavid E. KuhlDavid Edmund Kuhl isan American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine.He is well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. Dr...
and Michael E. PhelpsMichael E. PhelpsMichael Edward Phelps is a professor and an American biophysicist. He is known for being one of the fathers of positron emission tomography . Phelps was born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. He spent his early life as a boxer, winning the coveted Golden Gloves... - 2000 Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. WaniMansukh C. WaniProfessor Mansukh C. Wani, Ph.D. is a principal scientist at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina. He is co-discoverer of Taxol and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers. In 2000, Dr. Wani received an...
- 1999 Ronald LevyRonald LevyRonald Levy is an American medical doctor and scientist at Stanford University. He specializes in lymphoma, including Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Burkitt's Lymphoma and Hodgkin's Disease...
- 1998 H. Rodney Withers
- 1997 Herman D. Suit
- 1996 Malcolm A. Bagshaw and Patrick C. Walsh
- 1995 Norbert Brock
- 1994 Laurent Degos and Zhen-yi WangZhen-yi WangZhen-yi Wang is a Chinese pathophysiologist, hematologist, and the Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China.-Biography:...
- 1993 Gianni Bonadonna and Bernard FisherBernard Fisher (scientist)Bernard Fisher was Chairman of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.-Notes:This article uses public domain text from the National Cancer Institute.-Sources:...
- 1992 Lawrence H. Einhorn
- 1991 Victor LingVictor LingVictor Ling, OC, OBC is an award-winning Canadian researcher in the field of medicine. Ling's research focuses on drug resistance in cancer. He is best known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein, one of the proteins responsible for multidrug resistance....
- 1990 Sir David Cox
- 1989 Mortimer M. Elkind
- 1988 Sam Shapiro and Philip StraxPhilip StraxPhilip Strax was a radiologist who pioneered the use of mammography to screen for early breast cancer. With co-investigators statistician Sam Shapiro and surgeon Louis Venet he conducted a randomized evaluation comparing outcomes of 30,000 women who received clinical breast exam alone or clinical...
- 1987 Basil I. HirschowitzBasil HirschowitzBasil Isaac Hirschowitz is an academic gastroenterologist from the University of Alabama at Birmingham best known in the field for having invented an improved optical Fiber which allowed the creation of a useful flexible endoscope...
- 1986 Donald PinkelDonald PinkelDonald Pinkel is an American medical doctor who specializes in pediatric hematology and oncology.He has made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia....
- 1985 Paul C. Lauterbur
- 1984 Barnett RosenbergBarnett RosenbergBarnett Rosenberg was an American chemist best known for the discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin.Rosenberg graduated from Brooklyn College in 1948 and obtained his PhD in Physics at New York University in 1956...
- 1983 Emil Frei III and Emil J. Freireich
- 1982 Howard E. Skipper
- 1981 E. Donnall ThomasE. Donnall ThomasDr. Edward Donnall Thomas is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the...
- 1980 Elwood V. JensenElwood V. JensenElwood V. Jensen is the Distinguished University Professor, George and Elizabeth Wile Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies. In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on...
- 1979 Henry S. Kaplan