Lance A. Liotta (born July 12, 1947) is the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

. His research team was the first to propose the existence of the

autocrine motility factor Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI), alternatively known as phosphoglucose isomerase/phosphoglucoisomerase (PGI) or phosphohexose isomerase (PHI), is an enzyme ( ) that in humans is encoded by the ''GPI'' gene on chromosome 19. This gene enc ...

. In 1985, he received the Rhoads Award (since renamed the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research) from the

American Association for Cancer Research The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's oldest and largest professional association related to cancer research. Based in Philadelphia, the AACR focuses on all aspects of cancer research, including basic, clinical, and t ...

. In 1987, he received the National Lectureship Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. His other awards include the Warner-Lambert Parke Davis Award and the Surgeon General's Medallion. The House of Representatives oversight subcommittee in 2004 provided evidence that Lance A. Liotta, then a researcher at the National Cancer Institute, had continued to receive thousands of dollars in compensation from a business arrangement through May, 2004, despite his testimony under oath the previous month that he had suspended the collaboration months before.

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