Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize

The Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize was a research award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation between 1979 and 2005 for excellence in basic oncology research. The award, named after Alfred P. Sloan , was endowed with 250,000 US dollars .

Due to economic difficulties of the parent company, the awarding of the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize 2005 was stopped - as well as the Kettering Prize and the Charles S. Mott Prize . Instead of these three prizes, in 2006, under the name of the General Motors Cancer Research Award, only a single prize - also endowed with 250,000 US dollars - was awarded. The winner was Napoleone Ferrara . In the following years no more prizes were awarded.

15 of the 37 winners of the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (around 40 percent) later received a Nobel Prize, thirteen the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , and two the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (as of 2010).

Award winners

2005 Roger D. Kornberg (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006) 2004 Thomas J. Kelly , Bruce Stillman 0000 2003 Pierre Chambon , Ronald M. Evans 0000 2002 John E. Sulston (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2002), Robert H. Waterston 0000 2001 Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009) 2000 Avram Hershko (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004), Alexander Varshavsky 0000 1999 Robert G. Roeder , Robert Tjian 0000 1998 H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2002) 1997 Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2001) 1996 Mark M. Davis , Tak Wah Mak 0000 1995 Edward E. Harlow 1994 Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007), Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007) 0000 1993 Hidesaburō Hanafusa 1992 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1995) 1991 Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2001) 1990 Mark Ptashne 1989 Donald Metcalf , Leo Sachs 0000 1988 Yasutomi Nishizuka 1987 Robert Allan Weinberg 1986 Phillip Allen Sharp (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1993) 1985 Robert T. Schimke 1984 John Michael Bishop (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1989), Harold Elliot Varmus (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1989) 0000 1983 Raymond L. Erikson 1982 Stanley Cohen (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1986) 1981 César Milstein (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1984), Wallace P. Rowe 0000 1980 Isaac Berenblum 1979 George Klein

2005: R. Kornberg 2002: JE Sulston 2002: RH Waterston 2001: EH Blackburn 2000: A. Hershko 1997: Paul Nurse 1994: MR Capecchi 1992: C. Nüsslein-Volhard 1990: MS Ptashne 1989: Leo Sachs 1986: PA Sharp 1984: JM Bishop 1984: HE Varmus 1982: S. Cohen 1980: I. Berenblum 1979: G. Klein (with wife)

Web links

• Philanthropy / Cancer Research Award ( Memento of March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• General Motors Cancer Research Awards Laureates 1979–1998 (PDF) at aacrjournals.org