Kettering Prize

The Kettering Prize (officially the Charles F. Kettering Prize ) was awarded annually between 1979 and 2005 for outstanding contributions to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer . It is one of three awards given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. The other prizes were the Charles S. Mott Prize for outstanding contributions to research into the causes and prevention of cancer and the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize for outstanding basic research in cancer medicine. The Kettering Prize was endowed with USD 250,000. (As of 2000)

The foundation was established in the late 1970s after several Detroit newspapers reported an above-average number of cancer cases among General Motors employees.

The award was presented in memory of Charles F. Kettering , inventor and long-time President of the General Motors Institute. In 2006 the awarding of the prizes was stopped due to the poor economic situation of General Motors.

Award winners

2005 Angela H. Brodie
2004 Robert S. Langer for the development of techniques for the controlled delivery of drugs over longer periods of time in cancer treatment. Langer was the first engineer to receive the Kettering Prize.
2003 V. Craig Jordan
2002 Brian J. Druker and Nicholas B. Lydon
2001 David E. Kuhl and Michael E. Phelps
2000 Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani
1999 Ronald Levy for his research on therapy with monoclonal antibodies
1998 H. Rodney Withers for his contributions to radiation therapy , in particular the method of hyperfractionated radiation
1997 Herman D. Suit
1996 Malcolm A. Bagshaw and Patrick C. Walsh
1995 Norbert Brock
1994 Laurent Degos and Zhen-yi Wang
1993 Gianni Bonadonna and Bernard Fisher
1992 Lawrence H. Einhorn
1991 Victor Ling
1990 Sir David Cox
1989 Mortimer M. Elkind
1988 Sam Shapiro and Philip Strax
1987 Basil I. Hirschowitz
1986 Donald Pinkel
1985 Paul C. Lauterbur
1984 Barnett Rosenberg
1983 Emil Frei III and Emil J. Freireich
1982 Howard E. Skipper
1981 E. Donnall Thomas
1980 Elwood V. Jensen
1979 Henry S. Kaplan

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/reports/00/links/handh.html ( Memento from September 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
^ The General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. Retrieved August 24, 2008 .
^ University of Maryland Scientist to Receive 2005 Charles F. Kettering Prize for Cancer Research. In: umm.edu. May 24, 2005, accessed March 4, 2017 .
^ MIT News: Langer award cites cancer work. June 2, 2004, accessed August 24, 2008 .
^ General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Awards Honor Top Cancer Innovators. In: Journal of the National Cancer Institute . July 7, 1999, accessed August 24, 2008 .
^ H. Rodney Withers: Radiation Biology and Treatment Options in Radiation Oncology . In: Cancer Research . tape 59 , 7 Supplement, April 1999, pp. 1676s-1684s .

[1] ttp://www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/reports/00/links/handh.html ( Memento from September 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[2] The General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. Retrieved August 24, 2008 .

[umm-2005-3] University of Maryland Scientist to Receive 2005 Charles F. Kettering Prize for Cancer Research. In: umm.edu. May 24, 2005, accessed March 4, 2017 .

[4] MIT News: Langer award cites cancer work. June 2, 2004, accessed August 24, 2008 .

[5] General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Awards Honor Top Cancer Innovators. In: Journal of the National Cancer Institute . July 7, 1999, accessed August 24, 2008 .

[6] H. Rodney Withers: Radiation Biology and Treatment Options in Radiation Oncology . In: Cancer Research . tape 59 , 7 Supplement, April 1999, pp. 1676s-1684s .