Wolf Prize 2005: Winners

Recipients

1. Alexander Levitzki

   Biology

   for pioneering signal transduction therapy and for developing tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective agents against cancer and a range of other diseases.

2. Tony Pawson

   Biology

   for his discovery of protein domains essential for mediating protein-protein interactions in cellular signaling pathways, and the insights this research has provided into cancer.

3. Anthony R. Hunter

   Biology

   for the discovery of protein kinases that phosphorylate tyrosine residues in proteins, critical for the regulation of a wide variety of cellular events, including malignant transformation.