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.^[1][2]

Of the winners of the prize 15 out of 37 have gone on to win either a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, or a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

It was awarded from 1979 to 2005, however, due to budget constraints the Alfred P. Sloan Jr. prize, the Charles K. Kettering prize, and the Charles S. Mott Prize were consolidated into the single General Motors Cancer Research Award which also had a value of $250,000.^[3]

In 2006, the winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was Napoleone Ferrara.^[4]

After 2006 no more prizes were awarded.

Winners

Year	Winner
2005		Roger D. Kornberg (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006)[5]
2004		Thomas J. Kelly,[6]
		Bruce Stillman[7]
2003		Pierre Chambon
		Ronald M. Evans
2002		John E. Sulston (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)
		Robert H. Waterston
2001		Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009)
2000		Avram Hershko (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004)
		Alexander Varshavsky
1999		Robert G. Roeder[8]
		Robert Tjian[9]
1998		H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)
1997		Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
1996		Mark M. Davis
		Tak Wah Mak
1995		Ed Harlow
1994		Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)
		Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)
1993		Hidesaburō Hanafusa
1992		Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
1991		Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)
1990		Mark Ptashne
1989		Donald Metcalf
		Leo Sachs
1988		Yasutomi Nishizuka
1987		Robert Allan Weinberg
1986		Phillip Allen Sharp (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993)
1985		Robert Schimke
1984		John Michael Bishop (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)
		Harold Elliot Varmus (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)
1983		Raymond L. Erikson
1982		Stanley Cohen (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986)
1981		César Milstein (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984)
		Wallace P. Rowe
1980		Isaac Berenblum
1979		George Klein
1962		Lloyd J. Old

References

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2. "GM Cancer Previous Prize Winners". General Motors. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
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4. Jones A (July 2006). "Napoleone Ferrara wins 2006 GM Cancer Research Award". Cancer Biology & Therapy. 5 (7): 708–709. doi:10.4161/cbt.5.7.3155. PMID 17022136.
5. "The 2005 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Laureate". Archived from the original on 19 October 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
6. "Center News Magazine: Thomas Kelly Wins General Motors Cancer Research Award | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center". Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. June 9, 2004. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
7. "Cold Spring Harbor Scientist Bruce Stillman Awarded Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. June 10, 2004. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
8. "Laureates' Lectures".
9. "Laureates' Lectures".