Carlo M. Croce is an Italian Medical Doctor and oncologist noted for research into the genetic mechanisms of cancer. Croce received the 2006 Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research for his discoveries of the molecular mechanisms of Leukemia.[1] In 2010, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
In 2010, Croce became director of The John W. Wolfe Chair for the Human Cancer Genetics Program at Ohio State University.[3]
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Croce was born on December 17, 1944 in Milan, Italy to a housewife and a mechanical engineer. At age 2, Croce moved to Rome with his family. In 1963 Croce entered the school of medicine of La Sapienza University of Rome and graduated in 1969 with "summa cum laude" in medicine and latin. In his late 20's, Croce moved to Philadelphia to work at Temple University, moving to Thomas Jefferson University shortly thereafter (1990), where he stayed for more than 15 years.
Dr. Croce has two children, one born in 1979 and the other in 1997.
1975 Research Career Development Award, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
1985 Outstanding Investigator Award, The National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD
1987 Scientific Award, American Cancer Society, Philadelphia Division
1990 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, Association for Cancer Research
1992 Eagles Fly for Leukemia Lifetime Achievement Award
1992 Scanno Prize for Medicine
1992 Outstanding Investigator Award, The National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD
1993 Charles S. Mott Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
1993 John Scott Award
1994 Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Cancer Award
1994 Honorary Member, Japanese Cancer Association
1995 CLAS Distinguished Scientist Award
1996 National Academy of Sciences MVIMG
1997 Rudolf Virchow Honorary Lectureship, University of Wurzburg, Germany
1997 Scientific Excellence in Medicine Award, American-Italian Cancer Foundation
1997 The Twenty-Fifth Solomon A. Berson Memorial Lecture, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NY
1999 Raymond Bourgine Award and Gold Medal of Paris
1999 The 1999 AACR-Pezcoller International Award for Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research
1999 The 1999 Herz Memorial Lecture in Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University
2000 Doctor in Medicine, Honoris Causa, Uppsala University, Sweden
2000 Honor of Merit of Italian Republic
2001 Clavius Award for Achievement in Science and Research
2002 Rod and Ceil Mortel Lecture in Cancer Research, Penn State University
2003 Italian Gold Medal for Public Health, Presented by President Ciampi
2003 President of the Republic Prize, Accademia di Lincei
2003 Golgi Lecture, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
2003 Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, delta dei XL
2004 Premio Beccaria, A. Serra Foundation for Cancer Research
2005 Gottlieb Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2006 G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, American Association for Cancer Research
2010 Fellow, Fellow. American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), Cambridge, MA, United States.