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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
Six scientists whose research shed light on the genetic
basis of cancer and a researcher with a broad array of
achievements have won Albert Lasker
Awards, the medical
research awards administered by the Albert and Mary Lasker
Foundation.
The three scientists who were honored for basic research
into the machinery that controls cell division, a process
that goes out of control in cancer, are Dr. Lee Hartwell,
president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
and geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle;
Dr. Yoshio Masui, professor emeritus of zoology at the
University of Toronto; and Dr. Paul Nurse, director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research
Fund in London.
Clinical research awards for studies of the genetic roots
of cancer will be presented to Dr. Alfred G. Knudson Jr.,
former president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in
Philadelphia; Dr. Peter C. Nowell, professor of pathology
and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia; and Dr. Janet D. Rowley, professor of
medicine, molecular genetics, and cell biology at the
University of Chicago.
The Lasker Foundation's special achievement award went
to Daniel E. Koshland Jr., a professor at the University
of California at Berkeley, for his work on the functioning
of enzymes and proteins, and on the way cells receive and
respond to signals, as well as for reorganizing the
Berkeley biology program and editing the journal "Science."
The Lasker Awards, established in 1945, are often called
America's Nobels because 59 Lasker recipients have gone on
to receive Nobel Prizes in Sweden.
FCnote: The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation,
Inc. (NY) is an operating foundation which had assets of $1,920,743 and made grants
totaling $2,660 in the year ending 12/31/96.
"Seven Honored for Achievements in Medicine, Science."
Associated Press 9/20/98.
Altman, Lawrence K. "Six Scientists Whose Discoveries
Helped to Combat Cancer Are Honored." New York Times
9/20/98.
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