# Kettering Prize

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{{Short description|Scientific prize for cancer research}}
The '''Charles F. Kettering Prize''', known often as simply '''the Kettering Prize''', was a US$250,000 award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer.<ref name="Cancer Research 1999 pp. 1673s–1673s">{{cite journal | title=Laureates: General Motors Cancer Research Awards | journal=Cancer Research | volume=59 | issue=7 Supplement | date=1 March 1999 | issn=0008-5472 | pages=1673s | url=http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/59/7_Supplement/1673s | access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/philanthropy/cancer_research/prize.htm 
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 |title=GM Cancer Previous Prize Winners 
 |publisher=General Motors 
 |archivedate=13 March 2007 
 |accessdate=12 August 2012 
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==History==
The award was named in honor of [Charles F. Kettering](/source/Charles_Kettering), inventor, former [General Motors](/source/General_Motors_Corporation) Director, and pioneer of the General Motors Research Laboratories. It was awarded annually from 1979 to 2005.

In 2006, due to budget constraints, the [Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize](/source/Alfred_P._Sloan_Jr._Prize), the Charles F. Kettering prize and the [Charles S. Mott Prize](/source/Charles_S._Mott_Prize), originally each worth $250,000, were consolidated into a single General Motors Cancer Research Award with a combined value of $250,000. The first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was [Napoleone Ferrara](/source/Napoleone_Ferrara).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Napoleone Ferrara wins 2006 GM Cancer Research Award |journal=Cancer Biology & Therapy |volume=5 |issue=7 |pages=708–709 |doi=10.4161/cbt.5.7.3155 |pmid=17022136 |date=July 2006 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Since 2006 no more prizes have been awarded.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

==Medalists==

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*2005 [Angela H. Brodie](/source/Angela_H._Brodie)
*2004 [Robert S. Langer](/source/Robert_S._Langer)
*2003 [V. Craig Jordan](/source/V._Craig_Jordan)
*2002 [Brian J. Druker](/source/Brian_Druker) and [Nicholas B. Lydon](/source/Nicholas_Lydon)
*2001 [David E. Kuhl](/source/David_E._Kuhl) and [Michael E. Phelps](/source/Michael_E._Phelps)
*2000 [Monroe E. Wall](/source/Monroe_E._Wall) and [Mansukh C. Wani](/source/Mansukh_C._Wani)
*1999 [Ronald Levy](/source/Ronald_Levy_(scientist))
*1998 [H. Rodney Withers](/source/H._Rodney_Withers)
*1997 [Herman D. Suit](/source/Herman_D._Suit)
*1996 {{ill|Malcolm Bagshaw|de}} and [Patrick C. Walsh](/source/Patrick_C._Walsh)
*1995 {{ill|Norbert Brock|de}}
*1994 [Laurent Degos](/source/Laurent_Degos) and [Zhen-yi Wang](/source/Zhen-yi_Wang)
*1993 {{ill|Gianni Bonadonna|de}} and [Bernard Fisher](/source/Bernard_Fisher_(scientist))
*1992 [Lawrence H. Einhorn](/source/Lawrence_H._Einhorn)
*1991 [Victor Ling](/source/Victor_Ling)
*1990 [David Cox](/source/Sir_David_Cox_(statistician))
*1989 {{ill|Mortimer M. Elkind|de}}
*1988 Sam Shapiro and [Philip Strax](/source/Philip_Strax)
*1987 [Basil I. Hirschowitz](/source/Basil_Hirschowitz)
*1986 [Donald Pinkel](/source/Donald_Pinkel)
*1985 [Paul C. Lauterbur](/source/Paul_C._Lauterbur)
*1984 [Barnett Rosenberg](/source/Barnett_Rosenberg)
*1983 [Emil Frei III](/source/Emil_Frei_III) and [Emil J. Freireich](/source/Emil_J._Freireich)
*1982 [Howard E. Skipper](/source/Howard_E._Skipper)
*1981 [E. Donnall Thomas](/source/E._Donnall_Thomas)
*1980 [Elwood V. Jensen](/source/Elwood_V._Jensen)
*1979 [Henry S. Kaplan](/source/Henry_S._Kaplan)
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==See also==

* [List of biomedical science awards](/source/List_of_biomedical_science_awards)

==References==
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Prize, Kettering
Category:Cancer research awards
Category:American science and technology awards
Category:General Motors

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