Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize

This article is about the cancer research award. For the film prize, see Alfred P. Sloan Prize.

The Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was a $250,000 award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for outstanding oncological research.[1][2]

The prize was awarded annually from 1979 to 2005. Of the winners, 15 out of 37 have gone on to win either a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

in 2006, due to budget constraints, the Alfred P. Sloan Jr. prize, the Charles K. Kettering prize, and the Charles S. Mott Prize were consolidated into a single General Motors Cancer Research Award which also had a value of $250,000.[3] The first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was Napoleone Ferrara.[4]

After 2006 no more prizes were awarded.[citation needed]

## Laureates

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Year  | Winner

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2005  |  | Roger D. Kornberg (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006)[5]
2004  |  | Thomas J. Kelly[6]
| Bruce Stillman[7]
2003  |  | Pierre Chambon
| Ronald M. Evans
2002  |  | John E. Sulston (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)
| Robert H. Waterston
2001  |  | Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009)
2000  |  | Avram Hershko (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004)
| Alexander Varshavsky
1999  |  | Robert G. Roeder[8]
| Robert Tjian[9]
1998  |  | H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)
1997  |  | Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
1996  |  | Mark M. Davis
| Tak Wah Mak
1995  |  | Ed Harlow
1994  |  | Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)
| Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)
1993  |  | Hidesaburo Hanafusa
1992  |  | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
1991  |  | Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
1990  |  | Mark Ptashne
1989  |  | Donald Metcalf
| Leo Sachs
1988  |  | Yasutomi Nishizuka
1987  |  | Robert Allan Weinberg
1986  |  | Phillip Allen Sharp (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993)
1985  |  | Robert Schimke
1984  |  | John Michael Bishop (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)
| Harold Elliot Varmus (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)
1983  |  | Raymond L. Erikson
1982  |  | Stanley Cohen (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986)
1981  |  | César Milstein (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984)
| Wallace P. Rowe
1980  |  | Isaac Berenblum
1979  |  | George Klein

## See also

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* List of medicine awards

## References

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1. ^ "Laureates: General Motors Cancer Research Awards". Cancer Research. 59 (7 Supplement): 1673s. 1 March 1999. ISSN 0008-5472. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
2. ^ "GM Cancer Previous Prize Winners". General Motors. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
3. ^ Katterman, Lee (1991-10-13). "Public Awareness Of Cancer Research: The Driving Force Behind GM's Awards". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
4. ^ Jones A (July 2006). "Napoleone Ferrara wins 2006 GM Cancer Research Award". Cancer Biology & Therapy. 5 (7): 708–709. doi:10.4161/cbt.5.7.3155. PMID 17022136. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
5. ^ "The 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Laureate". Archived from the original on 19 October 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
6. ^ "Center News Magazine: Thomas Kelly Wins General Motors Cancer Research Award | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center". Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. June 9, 2004. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
7. ^ "Cold Spring Harbor Scientist Bruce Stillman Awarded Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. June 10, 2004. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
8. ^ "Laureates' Lectures". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
9. ^ "Laureates' Lectures". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2012-09-09.