The Gotham Prize: a beacon for cancer researchers

The Gotham Prize: a beacon for cancer researchers.

2016 The Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www.jci.org Volume 117 Number 8 August 2007 The Gotham Prize: a beacon for cancer researchers A new cancer research prize has been established with funding from an unlikely source. Two hedge fund managers, Joel Greenblatt and Robert Goldstein of private investment firm Gotham Capital, together with Gary Curhan of Harvard Medical School, have cre...

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Major research prize awarded to wheat researchers

Most readers will be familiar with Professor Keith Edwards (University of Bristol), who was Founding Editor of the Plant Biotechnology Journal, steering the journal from 2002 to 2012. During his 10-year tenure as Editor-in-Chief, Keith also led an internationally leading research programme on applied wheat genomics, and this aspect of his work has now been recognized by the award, jointly with ...

Climate Change Researchers Capture Tyler Prize

Background: Unsafe abortion is a major public health problem in low-and-middle income countries. Young and unmarried women constitute a high risk group for unsafe abortions. It has been estimated that widespread use of emergency contraception may significantly reduce the number of abortion-related morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and ex...

A Prize for Cancer Prevention

This year's Lasker-DeBakey Prize for Clinical Research to Douglas Lowy and John Schiller celebrates the science behind one of the greatest advances in the history of cancer research: the development of vaccines that prevent infection and thus prevent tumor induction by pathogenic strains of human papilloma virus (HPV).