3 earn prestigious awards for studies of cancer, DNA damage
NEW YORK (AP) — Three researchers won prestigious medical awards Tuesday for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures deal with DNA damage.
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation also honored the medical group Doctors Without Borders for its work on health emergencies, such as Africa's Ebola outbreak.
The Lasker prizes, each of which includes an honorarium of $250,000, will be presented Sept. 18 in New York City. This is the 70th year for the awards.
The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award went to James Allison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The foundation said he "cracked open a brand-new therapeutic world" by finding a particular way to make a patient's body attack cancer.