Stanley Cohen

Awards

1. 1985

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   In recognition of his research on growth factors, and particularly for the isolation, purification and elucidation of the function of epidermal growth factor.

2. 1986

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For discovering and biochemically defining Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF), which illuminated the dynamics of cell growth.

3. 1986

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries of growth factors