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  2. Lasker Award
  3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
  4. 1972
  5. Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt

For contributions to the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of gestational choriocarcinoma.

Biology

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Affiliated at time of winning

Medical Research Council

London, United Kingdom

Shared with

  • C. Gordon Zubrod
  • Donald Pinkel
  • Edmund Klein
  • Emil Frei III
  • Emil J. Freireich
  • Eugene J. Van Scott
  • Isaac Djerassi
  • James F. Holland
  • John L. Ziegler
  • Joseph H. Burchenal
  • Min Chiu Li
  • Paul P. Carbone
  • Roy Hertz
  • V. Anomah Ngu
  • Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.

Facts

Prize share
Lasker Award 1972 1/16
Birth
1911-03-28
Birth city
Islington
Birth country
United Kingdom
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Death
1993-08-05
Death city
Oxford
Death country
United Kingdom
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updated: 2026-08-04