American Cancer Society Research Program grantees Brian Druker, M.D., of Oregon Health & Science University and Charles Sawyers, M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, have been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in medicine, the Lasker Award. The Lasker Awards recognize the contributions of scientists, physicians and public servants internationally working to cure, treat, and prevent disease. The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award was awarded to Drs. Druker and Sawyers and to Nicholas B. Lydon, Ph.D., formerly of Novartis, for their work on Gleevec for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Gleevec turned a once-fatal cancer into a manageable condition. A description of the award from the Lasker Foundation can be found here.
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