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Einstein's Susan Band Horwitz, PhD wins Bristol-Myers Squibb Cancer Research Award

cer Research in 1986 and Associate Director for Therapeutics at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center in 2000. She holds all three positions today.

Dr. Horwitz is a past-president of the American Association for Cancer Research. She has received numerous honors and awards including the Cain Memorial Award of the American Association for Cancer Research in 1992, the ASPET Award for Experimental Therapeutics in 1994, the C. Chester Stock Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1996, the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2003, and the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science & Technology in 2004. Dr. Horwitz was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. Also in 2005, she received the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize from Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, of the Yale Cancer Center Scientific Advisory Board and of the Stony Brook Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Advisory Board.


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