Napoleone Ferrara

Awards

1. 2010

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery of VEGF as a major mediator of angiogenesis and the development of an effective anti-VEGF therapy for wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the elderly.

2. 2013

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for discoveries in the mechanisms of angiogenesis that led to therapies for cancer and eye diseases.

3. 2014

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For discovering Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF), a key molecular mediator of new blood vessel formation and the development of effective anti-VEGF. therapy for cancer and wet macular degeneration