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Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley awarded

PHILADELPHIA -- Two scientists whose fundamental discoveries into the cause and progression of cancer opened new paths for the treatment of this disease are being honored this year with the prestigious Landon-AACR Prizes for Basic and Translational Cancer Research.

These prizes, offered by the Kirk A. and Dorothy P. Landon Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research, are the largest offered to cancer researchers from a professional society of their peers. Each recipient will receive an unrestricted cash award of $200,000 and present a scientific lecture at the AACR Annual Meeting, held this year from April 16-20 in Anaheim, Calif.

This year's winners are:

  • Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology with the University of California, San Francisco, who has been awarded the Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research; and

  • Janet Rowley, M.D., the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, who has been awarded the Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research.

    "These two outstanding women have produced major breakthroughs in our understanding into the etiology of cancer, with significant implications for the targeted treatment of various cancers," said Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), AACR's chief executive officer. "I am particularly pleased that we are presenting these prestigious awards to two such deserving and trail-blazing scientists."

    For more than a quarter century, Elizabeth Blackburn has been investigating the structure and role of telomeres, the tips of genetic material at the end of chromosomes. Prior to her work, all that was known about telomeres (from the Greek word for 'end' and 'part') was that they became shorter with each cell division and, by implication, served as a kind of biological clock that was partly responsible fo
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    • Contact: Warren Froelich
    froelich@aacr.org
    215-440-9300
    American Association for Cancer Research
    17-Mar-2005


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