GM Cancer & Sloan-Kettering Prizes
Jewish recipients of the GM Cancer & Sloan-Kettering Prizes documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 38% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
27 documented recipients
George Klein1925
Tumor biologist who advanced understanding of viral oncology and tumor immunology.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Isaac Berenblum1903
Cancer researcher who defined the two-stage (initiation-promotion) model of carcinogenesis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
César Milstein1927
Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Cohen1986
Growth Factors
Source: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Harold Varmus1989
With Michael Bishop showed that retroviral oncogenes derive from normal cellular genes (proto-oncogenes), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989; director of the NIH 1993–1999 and of the National…
Source: Wikipedia — Harold E. Varmus / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1989
Robert Weinberg1942
Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Leo Sachs1924
Geneticist who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Mark Ptashne1940
Molecular biologist who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched on and off.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
H. Robert Horvitz1947
Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Avram Hershko2004
Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Alexander Varshavsky1946
Biologist who discovered the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Pierre Chambon1931
Molecular biologist who discovered split genes and pioneered the study of nuclear hormone receptors.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald M. Evans1949
Molecular biologist who discovered the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Roger Kornberg2006
Biochemist who identified the nucleosome and captured the transcription machinery of eukaryotic cells in atomic detail; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
Source: Wikipedia — Roger Kornberg
Henry Kaplan1918
Radiation oncologist who made Hodgkin's disease curable and co-developed the medical linear accelerator.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Emil Freireich1927
Oncologist who pioneered combination chemotherapy that made childhood leukemia curable.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Barnett Rosenberg1926
Chemist who discovered cisplatin, a mainstay of cancer chemotherapy.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Basil Hirschowitz1925
Gastroenterologist who invented the fiberoptic endoscope.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Sam Shapiro
GM Cancer / Sloan-Kettering Prize
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the GM Cancer Research Foundation Sloan & Kettering Prizes
Philip Strax
GM Cancer / Sloan-Kettering Prize
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the GM Cancer Research Foundation Sloan & Kettering Prizes
Mortimer Elkind1996
Radiation biologist of cellular repair; Fermi Award (1996)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award
Lawrence Einhorn1942
Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Bernard Fisher1918
Surgeon who transformed breast cancer treatment by showing that less-radical surgery is equally effective.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ronald Levy1941
Oncologist whose work on lymphoma led to rituximab, a pioneering cancer antibody drug.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Monroe Wall
GM Cancer / Sloan-Kettering Prize
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the GM Cancer Research Foundation Sloan & Kettering Prizes
Brian Druker1955
Oncologist who developed imatinib (Gleevec), a breakthrough targeted therapy for leukemia.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Langer1948
Biomedical engineer who pioneered controlled drug-delivery systems and tissue engineering.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology