The Charles F. Kettering Prize was a US$250,000 award given by the

General Motors Cancer Research Foundation 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 ...

for the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. __TOC__

History

The award was named in honor of

Charles F. Kettering Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) sometimes known as Charles Fredrick Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. For the list of patents issued to Kettering, see, Le ...

, inventor, former

General Motors The General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is the largest automaker in the United States and ...

Director, and pioneer of the General Motors Research Laboratories. It was awarded annually from 1979 to 2005. In 2006, due to budget constraints the

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize 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 eith ...

, the Charles F. 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 ...

, originally each worth $250,000, were consolidated into a single General Motors Cancer Research Award with a combined value of $250,000. The first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was

Napoleone Ferrara Napoleone Ferrara (born 26 July 1956, Catania), is an Italian-American molecular biologist who joined University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center in 2013 after a career in Northern California at the biotechnology giant Genentech, ...

. Since 2006 no more prizes have been awarded.

Medalists

*2005 Angela H. Brodie *2004 Robert S. Langer *2003

V. Craig Jordan Virgil Craig Jordan, , is a scientist with American and British citizenship specializing in drugs for breast cancer treatment and prevention. Currently, he is Professor of Breast Medical Oncology, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology a ...

*2002 Brian J. Druker and Nicholas B. Lydon *2001

David E. Kuhl David Edmund Kuhl (October 27, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri – May 28, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an Americans, American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine. He was well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. ...

and

Michael E. Phelps Michael Edward Phelps (born August 24, 1939) is a professor and an American biophysicist. He is known for being one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET). Biography Phelps was born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. He spent his early lif ...

*2000 Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani *1999 Ronald Levy *1998 H. Rodney Withers *1997 *1996 and Patrick C. Walsh *1995 *1994

Laurent Degos Laurent Degos, Professor of Haematology at the University of Paris, was born on July 9, 1945 in Paris (75008) from Robert Degos (1904-1987) medical doctor, Professor of Dermatology and Monique Lortat Jacob (1916-1999), third of four children, an o ...

and

Zhen-yi Wang Wang Zhenyi (; born November 30, 1924), also known as Zhen-yi Wang, is a Chinese pathophysiologist and hematologist who is a professor emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is most well known ...

*1993 and Bernard Fisher *1992

Lawrence H. Einhorn Lawrence Einhorn is an American oncology, oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine. A pioneer in cancer treatment research, Einhorn developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimens that increased cure rates while minimizing toxic side ef ...

*1991

Victor Ling Victor Ling, (; born 1943) is a Canadian researcher in the field of medicine. Ling's research focuses on drug resistance in cancer. He is best known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein, one of the proteins responsible for multidrug resistance. ...

*1990 David Cox *1989 *1988 Sam Shapiro and

Philip Strax Philip Strax (January 1, 1909 – March 9, 1999) was an American radiologist who pioneered the use of mammography to screen for early breast cancer. With his co-investigators, the statistician Sam Shapiro and the surgeon Louis Venet, he cond ...

*1987 Basil I. Hirschowitz *1986

Donald Pinkel Donald Paul Pinkel (September 7, 1926 – March 9, 2022) was an American physician who specialized in pediatric hematology and oncology. Pinkel made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia. He was the ...

*1985

Paul C. Lauterbur Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poss ...

*1984

Barnett Rosenberg Barnett Rosenberg (16 November 1926 – 8 August 2009) was an American chemist best known for the discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin. Rosenberg graduated from Brooklyn College in 1948 and obtained his PhD in physics at New York Universi ...

*1983

Emil Frei III Emil "Tom" Frei III (February 21, 1924 – April 30, 2013) was an American physician and oncologist. He was the former director and former physician-in-chief of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also the Richard a ...

and Emil J. Freireich *1982

Howard E. Skipper Howard Earle Skipper (born in Avon Park, Florida on November 21, 1915; died in Mountain Brook, Alabama on January 2, 2006) was a noted American oncologist. He grew up in Sebring, Florida and received his science degrees (BS, MS, PhD) from the Unive ...

*1981

E. Donnall Thomas Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (March 15, 1920 – October 20, 2012)Frederick R. Appelbaum.Perspective: E. Donnall Thomas (1920–2012) Science 338(6111):1163, 30 November 2012 was an American physician, professor emeritus at the University o ...

*1980 Elwood V. Jensen *1979

Henry S. Kaplan Henry Seymour Kaplan (April 24, 1918 – February 4, 1984) was an American radiologist who pioneered in radiation therapy and radiobiology. Career Kaplan earned his degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, after which he trained at the Un ...

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