Kettering Prize

The Kettering Prize is given for the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer.

Additional recommended knowledge

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This award is named in honor of Charles F. Kettering, inventor, former General Motors Director, and pioneer of the General Motors Research Laboratories.

Past winners are:

• 2005 Angela M. Brodie
• 2004 Robert S. Langer
• 2003 V. Craig Jordan
• 2002 Brian J. Druker and Nicholas B. Lydon
• 2001 David E. Kuhl and Michael E. Phelps
• 2000 Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani
• 1999 Ronald Levy
• 1998 H. Rodney Withers
• 1997 Herman D. Suit
• 1996 Malcolm A. Bagshaw and Patrick C. Walsh
• 1995 Norbert Brock
• 1994 Laurent Degos and Zhen-yi Wang
• 1993 Gianni Bonadonna and Bernard Fisher
• 1992 Lawrence H. Einhorn
• 1991 Victor Ling
• 1990 Sir David Cox
• 1989 Mortimer M. Elkind
• 1988 Sam Shapiro and Philip Strax
• 1987 Basil I. Hirschowitz
• 1986 Donald Pinkel
• 1985 Paul C. Lauterbur
• 1984 Barnett Rosenberg
• 1983 Emil Frei III and Emil J. Freireich
• 1982 Howard E. Skipper
• 1981 E. Donnall Thomas
• 1980 Elwood V. Jensen
• 1979 Henry S. Kaplan