Charles S. Mott Prize

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The $250,000 Charles S. Mott Prize is awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. The Mott Prize is one of a trio scientific prizes entirely devoted to cancer research (the other prizes being the Charles F. Kettering Prize and the Alfred P. Sloane Prize). They are generally considered the most prestigious awards in cancer research. The Mott Prize is awarded for "the most outstanding recent contribution related to the cause or prevention of cancer". The Kettering Prize is devoted to clinical advances in cancer care and the Sloane Prize is devoted to basic research having implications in cancer research. Since 2006, due to financial pressures on the corporation supporting the Foundation, the three awards have been curtailed--causing considerable consternation among cancer scientists.

Charles S. Mott Prize Recipients:

2005 Gerald Wogan[1]

2004 Charles J. Sherr[2]

2003 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore

2002 Richard Peto

2001 Frank E. Speizer, Walter Willett

2000 Bert Vogelstein

1999 Arnold J. Levine[3]

1998 Suzanne Cory, Stanley J. Korsmeyer

1997 M. Judah Folkman

1996 Paul L. Modrich, Richard D. Kolodner

1995 Frederick Pei Li, Joseph F. Fraumeni