Suit, Folkman, and Nurse Win GM Prizes

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The General Motors Cancer Research Foundation conferred its Science Awards this year on three scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries in the efficacy of combined regional resection and radiotherapy, tumor angiogenesis, and molecular regulation of the cell cycle.

The Charles E. Kettering medal for outstanding contributions to the treatment of cancer was awarded to Herman D. Suit, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

The Charles S. Mott medal for outstanding research in cancer causation or prevention was awarded to M. Judah Folkman, M.D., Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of pediatric surgery at Harvard Medical School.

The Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., medal for pioneering efforts in basic science contributing to cancer research was awarded to Paul M. Nurse, Ph.D., director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London.

Samuel A. Wells, Jr., M.D., president of the foundation, said each winner will receive a $100,000 prize and a gold medal. The three will be honored June 10 and 11 at the 19th annual General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Scientific Conference at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. The awards will be presented June 11 in ceremonies at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.