Mary-Claire King

Prix

1. 2014

   Prix Lasker — Prix Lasker-Koshland pour réalisations spéciales en sciences médicales

   Biologie

   For bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and human rights — she discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that causes hereditary breast cancer and deployed DNA strategies that reunite missing persons or their remains with their families.

2. 2018

   Prix Shaw — Sciences de la vie et médecine

   Biologie

   For her mapping the first breast cancer gene. Using mathematical modeling, King predicted and then demonstrated that breast cancer can be caused by a single gene. She mapped the gene which facilitated its cloning and has saved thousands of lives.

3. 2021

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

   For transforming cancer genetics and oncology with the discovery of inherited susceptibility to breast cancer due to mutation of the BRCA1 gene