Janet Rowley

Awards

1. 1996

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For establishing the critical importance of chromosomal rearrangement as a specific cause of human cancer and for a lifetime of research to identify the genes that are rearranged to cause leukemia and lymphoma.

2. 1998

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   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. 2012

   Japan Prize — Healthcare and Medical Technology

   Biology

   for the development of a new therapeutic drug targeting cancer-specific molecules.