Laureate

Donald Metcalf

1924–2010 · Australia · Male

Awards

  1. 1993

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Biology

    For the discovery of the colony-stimulating factors, two of which are widely used to treat patients with cancer and diseases of blood cell formation.

  2. 1994

    Canada Gairdner International Award

    Biology

    For contributions to the clinical use of colony-stimulating factors in the treatment of depressed hematopoiesis.