Michael B. Sporn (born February 13, 1933) is a professor emeritus of pharmacology, toxicology and medicine at
Dartmouth Medical School. His research focuses on the prevention of cancer.
He graduated from
Harvard University in 1952 received his MD at the
University of Rochester in 1959.
Sporn was Chief of the Laboratory of Chemoprevention at the National Cancer Institute from 1978 to 1995 where he was an officer of the
United States Public Health Service. In 1995, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth.
His recent research has focused on the use of
triterpenoids in breast cancer prevention.
His work has been funded by the NIH and
Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He is listed as an author on over 500 research papers.
Awards
* 1982 Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research,
American Academy of Dermatology
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* 1991 AACR-Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award
* 1994 Mider Lecture Award,
National Institutes of Health
* 1994 Medal of Honor,
American Cancer Society
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* 1995-2005 Editor-in-Chief, Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews
*1996 ASCO - American Cancer Society Award and Lecture
* 1998 Elected Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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* 1998
Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research
* 2002 AACR-Cancer Research Foundation of America Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research
* 2004
National Cancer Institute Eminent Scholar
* 2005 Brinker Award, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
* 2013 Elected Fellow of the
AACR Academy
References
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American oncologists
1933 births
University of Rochester alumni
Fellows of the AACR Academy
Harvard University alumni
Living people