Charles L. Sawyers
Charles Lazelle Sawyers (born January 26, 1959 in Nashville ) is an American oncologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City .
Life
Sawyers graduated from the Princeton University a Bachelor in History of Science and in 1985 at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine an MD ( professional doctorate ). As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked with Owen Witte at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
After two decades at UCLA, Sawyers moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in 2006 . There he is today (as of 2012) Professor of Oncology and Pathogenesis . He also does research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Act
Sawyers is one of the researchers who brought tyrosine kinase inhibitors (including Imatinib , tradename Glivec, and Dasatinib , tradename Sprycel) to market. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors represent a new and successful active principle in the treatment of various tumors, especially leukemia .
More recent work by Sawyers deals with the treatment of prostate cancer patients who have become unresponsive to hormone treatment.
Thomson Reuters has ranked Sawyers among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) since 2011 . He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
Awards (selection)
- 1998 Membership in the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- 2009 Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
- 2009 Dorothy P. Landon Prize for Translational Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- 2010 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award
- 2013–2014 President of the American Association for Cancer Research
- In 2013 he was among the first to win the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences .
- 2014 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
- 2017 Scheele Prize
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 2: M – Z. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7032-5 (Volume 2), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (complete work), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 3926
Web links
- Charles L. Sawyers, MD at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (mskcc.org); Retrieved March 30, 2012
- Charles L. Sawyers, MD and Research Abstract at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org); Retrieved March 30, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charles L. Sawyers at Thomson Reuters (thomsonreuters.com); Retrieved March 30, 2012
- ^ Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award - 2009 Winners at the Lasker Foundation (laskerfoundation.org); Retrieved March 30, 2012
- ^ Charles Sawyers Awarded Landon Prize at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (mskcc.org); Retrieved March 30, 2012
- ^ The 2011 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (the-asci.org); Retrieved March 30, 2012
- ^ Charles Sawyers Elected President of the American Association for Cancer Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (mskcc.org); Retrieved March 30, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sawyers, Charles L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sawyers, Charles Lazelle (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American oncologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville |