In the past two years Tony Hunter
was awarded several new prizes for his seminal contributions to cancer
research. His 1979 publication describing how tyrosine kinases can cause cancer
was a landmark study that has illuminated the molecular mechanism of many
cancers. Importantly, the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation as a signaling mechanism led to the identification of the first protein interaction module, the SH2 domain. Two prizes and one award are: -Sjoeberg Prize for Cancer
Breakthrough, shared with James P. Allison (February 2017) -Pezcoller Foundation-AACR
International Award (March 2018), and -Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science, shared with Brian Druker and John Mendelsohn (June 2018) For more information see https://www.salk.edu/ |
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