The Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction was established by

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Susan G. Komen (formerly known as Susan G. Komen for the Cure; originally as The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation; often simply as Komen) is a breast cancer organization in the United States. Komen focuses on patient navigation and advo ...

in 1992 to recognize leading scientists for their significant work in advancing research concepts or clinical application in the fields of

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research, screening or treatment. The intent of the award is to recognize scholars for a specific contribution, a consistent pattern of contributions, or leadership in the field that has had a substantial impact on the fight against breast cancer. The awardees are nominated and selected by a panel of their peers. Recipients are also invited to present their work in a lecture at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Brinker Award recipients each receive a $20,000 honorarium and a special citation of this distinction.

Recipients

Past recipients of the Komen Brinker Award
for Scientific Distinction include *

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 ...

(1992), a pioneer in the use of tamoxifen * Bernard Fisher (1992) * Arnold J. Levine (1993) * Richard J. Santen (1993) * Marc Lippman (1994) * Malcolm C. Pike (1994) * C. Kent Osborne (1995) * Helene S. Smith (1995) *

Edison Liu Edison T. Liu, M.D. is the former president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, and the former director of its NCI-designated Cancer Center (2012-2021). As CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, the organization doublerevenue, faculty and personnel expande ...

(1996) *

Umberto Veronesi Umberto Veronesi (; 28 November 1925 – 8 November 2016) was an Italian oncologist, physician, scientist and politician, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning ove ...

(1996) * Gabriel Hortobagyi (1997) * David M. Livingston (1997) *

Leland Hartwell Leland Harrison (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wit ...

(1998), winner of the 2001

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for medicine or physiology who was recognized for his achievements in the understanding the cell cycle in the development of cancer * Henry T. Lynch (1998) *

Mary-Claire King Mary-Claire King (born February 27, 1946) is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called ''BRCA1''. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in g ...

(1999), whose research isolated the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations associated with genetic forms of breast cancer * Nancy E. Davidson (1999) *

Angela Brodie Angela Hartley Brodie (28 September 1934 – 7 June 2017) was a British biochemist who pioneered development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors in cancer research. Born in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), Brodie studied chemical patholo ...

(2000) * Dimitrios Trichopoulos (2000) * Jay R. Harris (2001) * Bert W. O'Malley (2001) * Elwood V. Jensen (2002) * Charles L. Loprinzi (2002) * Mina J. Bissell (2003) * Walter C. Willett (2003) * Daniel Medina (2004) *

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, M.D. (2004), whose dose-density approach to the administration of chemotherapy has revolutionized breast cancer treatment * Trevor J. Powles (2005) *

Anita Roberts Anita Bauer Roberts (April 3, 1942 – May 26, 2006) was an American molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF-β, that is critical in healing wounds and bone fractures and that has a dual role in blocking or stimu ...

(2005), who co-discovered the TGF-beta molecule * Evan Simpson (2006) * George W. Sledge Jr. (2006) * Leslie Bernstein (2007) * Joe W. Gray (2007) * Richard D. Gelber (2008) * Aron Goldhirsch (2008) * Patricia S. Steeg (2008) * Benita S. Katzenellenbogan (2009) of the

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, for her work on the role of estrogen receptors in breast cancer * Geoffrey Greene (2009) *

Ian Smith Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to ...

(2009) * Jeffrey M. Rosen (2010) * Soonmyung Paik (2010) * Carlos L. Arteaga (2011), whose research has helped in explaining the role of key growth factor receptors and proteins in breast cancer pathogenesis * Armando E. Giuliano (2011) * Yosef Yarden (2012) * Hyman B. Muss (2012) * Edith A. Perez (2013) * Gordon B. Mills (2013) * Mitchell Dowsett (2014),

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Joan Brugge Joan S. Brugge is the Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology and the Director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, where she also served as the Chair of the Department of Cell Biology from 2004 to 2014. Her research focuses on ...

(2014),

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* Myles Brown (2015) * Martine J. Piccart (2015) * Charles Perou (2016) * Monica Morrow (2016) * Alan Ashworth (2017) *

Dennis Slamon Dennis Joseph Slamon (born August 6, 1948), is an American oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA. He is best known for his work identifying the HER2/neu oncogene that is amplified in 25-33% of breast cancer patient ...

(2017) * Lisa M. Coussens (2018) * Eric Winer (2018) * Matthew J. Ellis (2019) *

Jane Visvader Jane Visvader is a scientist specialising in breast cancer research who works for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She is the joint head of the Breast Cancer Laboratory with Geoff Lindeman. Education Visvader hol ...

(2019) * Geoffrey Lindeman (2019)

References

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External links

List of award winners
at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure website. Awards established in 1992 Biomedical awards Breast cancer American science and technology awards

Recipients

See also

References

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