The Leopold Griffuel Prize (Prix Leopold Griffuel) is sponsored by the French Association for Cancer Research (ARC, "Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer").

The prize is designed to reward the accomplishments of and encourage further research among the world's leading cancer

Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

 researchers. Past American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 recipients of the Griffuel Prize include Samuel Broder

Samuel Broder

Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and medical researcher. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995....

, former director of the National Cancer Institute; C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop

Charles Everett Koop, MD is an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and served as thirteenth Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.-Early years:Koop was born...

, former U.S. Surgeon General, and Anita Roberts

Anita Roberts

Anita B. Roberts was a molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF-β, that is critical in healing wounds and bone fractures and that has a dual role in blocking or stimulating cancers...

, pioneer in research on TGF-beta.

Recipients receive a cash award of €100 000 (valued at approximately USD $140 000 as of 2011).

Past Recipients

• 2008 - Hugues de Thé - Saint-Louis Hospital, France
• 2007 - Anne Dejean - Pasteur Institute, France
• 2006 - Carlo Croce - The Ohio State University
• 2005 - Sebastian Amigorena - Institute Curie, France
• 2004 - Alexander Varshavsky
  Alexander Varshavsky
  Alexander Varshavsky is a Russian-American biochemist and recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize　from Columbia University in 2001 for his research on ubiquitination...
  
  - California Institute of technologie of Pasadena, USA
• 2003 - Anita Roberts
  Anita Roberts
  Anita B. Roberts was a molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF-β, that is critical in healing wounds and bone fractures and that has a dual role in blocking or stimulating cancers...
  
   - National Cancer Institute, USA
• 2002 - Kari Alitalo - Council for Health, Finland
• 2001 - Jacques Pouyssegur - CNRS, France
• 2000 - Leland Hartwell - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
• 1999 - Thierry Boon-Falleur - Ludwig Institute, Belgium
• 1998 - Miroslav Radman
  Miroslav Radman
  Miroslav Radman is a prominent Croatian biologist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Radman's specialty is DNA repair; in 1974 he discovered the SOS response...
  
  
• 1997 - Gérard Orth
• 1996 - Pierre May
• 1995 - Pierre Potier
• 1994 - Georges Mathe
• 1993 - Samuel Broder
  Samuel Broder
  Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and medical researcher. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995....
  
  
• 1992 - Jérôme Lejeune
  Jérôme Lejeune
  Servant of God Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French Catholic pro-life paediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities...
  
  
• 1991 - Umberto Veronesi
  Umberto Veronesi
  Umberto Veronesi Knight Grand Cross OMRI is an Italian surgeon and oncologist, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years. He heads Italy's Nuclear Safety Agency.-Scientific career:Veronesi was born in Milan...
  
  
• 1990 - François Cuzin
• 1989 - C. Everett Koop
  C. Everett Koop
  Charles Everett Koop, MD is an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and served as thirteenth Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.-Early years:Koop was born...
  
  
• 1988 - Steven A. Rosenberg
• 1987 - Pierre Chambon
• 1986 - M. Anthony Epstein
• 1985 - Jean-Bernard Le Pecq
• 1984 - Michael Feldman
• 1983 - Robert Gallo
  Robert Gallo
  Robert Charles Gallo is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus , the infectious agent responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.Gallo is the...
  
  
• 1982 - Dominique Stehelin
• 1981 - Hamao Umezawa
  Hamao Umezawa
  was a Japanese scientist who discovered several antimicrobial agents and enzyme inhibitors.After graduating from the Musashi Junior and Senior High School, Umezawa completed his medical degree in 1937. After serving in Japanese army during World War II Umezawa did work on tuberculosis which led to...
  
  
• 1980 - Vincent DeVita
• 1979 - Charlotte Friend
  Charlotte Friend
  Charlotte Friend was an American virologist. She is best known for her discovery of the Friend Leukemia Virus and Friend erythroleukemia cells alongside Etienne de Harven. Charlotte Friend was a leading virologist who discovered viral leukemia...
  
  
• 1978 - Elisabeth Miller
• 1977 - Raymond Latarjet
• 1976 - Ludwig Gross
• 1975 - Henry S. Kaplan
• 1974 - Richard Doll
  Richard Doll
  Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...
  
  
• 1973 - George Klein
  George Klein (biologist)
  George Klein is a biologist who has specialized in studying certain types of tumors. He started a tumor biology center at Karolinska Institute and made a connection there between the epstein-Barr virus and lymphomas and other cancers. He is married to Eva Klein, also a biologist, and has a son...
  
  
• 1972 - Howard M. Temin
• 1971 - Georges Barski
• 1970 - Joseph Burchenal

External links

• Complete list of laureates, 1970 - 2005