Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize
The Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award is a Swiss science award in the field of cancer research that has been awarded by the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Foundation based in Bern .
According to the foundation's statutes, the aim of the award is to "honor outstanding cancer research that is carried out in the biological , basic medical , clinical-diagnostic or therapeutic areas". The prize includes personal prize money of 50,000 Swiss francs . In addition, a cancer research project by the respective award winner will be funded with up to 1,000,000 Swiss francs over a period of four years (as of 2016). Most recently, the prize was awarded roughly every two years.
Josef Steiner
According to the information provided by the foundation, little is known about the founder.
Josef Maria Steiner (born September 9, 1889 in Alpthal near Einsiedeln , † September 22, 1983 in Biel ) was a Swiss pharmacist . From 1907 to 1911 he attended the cantonal teacher training college in Schwyz and obtained a primary school teacher certificate . Steiner was a soldier and was certified as a lieutenant in the infantry in 1913 . During the First World War he served in various units in the Jura and Ticino . In 1919 he made up his Matura and began studying pharmacy at the University of Geneva . 1923 acquired Steiner, the federal diploma as a pharmacist and a doctorate in the same year with the work "Etude sur les levures actives des vins valaisans" to Dr. phil. nat. In 1931 Steiner opened the Dr. Steiner pharmacy and train station drugstore , which he ran for 52 years - until he was 94. Steiner lived modestly. In his will he stipulated that a prize for cancer research should be donated from his bequest.
Award winners
- 1986 Peter A. Cerutti
- 1987 Rainer F. Storb , C. Dean Buckner
- 1988 Mariano Barbacid , Thomas Graf , Hartmut Beug
- 1989 Isaiah J. Fidler , Lance A. Liotta
- 1990 Thierry Boon , Ronald Levy
- 1991 Victor Ling
- 1992 Bernard Fisher , Gianni Bonadonna
- 1993 David P. Lane , Arnold J. Levine
- 1994 Moses Judah Folkman
- 1995 Herbert Michael Pinedo (Main Award), Hans Acha-Orbea (Young Investigator Award)
- 1996 Paul Nurse (Main Award), Gerard I. Evan (Young Investigator Award)
- 1998 Andreas Strasser
- 2001 Wilhelm Krek
- 2003 Maria Blasco , Michael Hengartner
- 2007 Reuven Agami
- 2009 Manel Esteller
- 2011 Christoph Klein , Eduardo Moreno
- 2013 Joan Seoane , Eduard Batlle
- 2015 Andrea Alimonti
- 2017 Jacco van Rheenen
- 2019 Serena Nik-Zainal
Web links
- Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Foundation at the University of Bern (unibe.ch)