The Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was a $250,000
award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for outstanding oncological research.
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
The Charles S. Mott Prize was awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation as one of a trio of scientific prizes entirely devoted to cancer research, the other two being the Charles F. Kettering Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan, J ...
were consolidated into a single General Motors Cancer Research Award which also had a value of $250,000.
The first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was
Napoleone Ferrara.
After 2006 no more prizes were awarded.
Laureates
See also
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List of medicine awards
References
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American science and technology awards
Cancer research awards