Alfred G. Knudson

賞

1. 1997

   カナダ・ガードナー国際賞

   生物学

   For his development of a two-hit mutational hypothesis for the origin of cancer that related hereditary and non-hereditary forms of retinoblastoma and other tumors; this hypothesis has become a paradigm for mutational theories on the origins of cancer and led directly to the concept of suppressor oncogenes.

2. 1998

   ラスカー賞 — ラスカー・デベーキー臨床医学研究賞

   生物学

   For incisive studies in patient-oriented research that paved the way for identifying genetic alterations that cause cancer in humans and that allow for cancer diagnosis in patients at the molecular level.

3. 2004

   京都賞 — 基礎科学

   生物学

   Seminal contribution to the establishment of the theory of the tumor suppressor gene in the mechanism of human carcinogenesis