Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer
This prestigious award is given annually by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center- James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. An international competition identifies an individual whose contributions to cancer research, patient care or education have received worldwide recognition.
This year the award has been increased to $25,000, making the Block Memorial Lectureship Award one of the largest prizes awarded by an academic institution in the field of cancer. The lectureship activities are scheduled for October 8-9, 2009, and the announcement of the 2009 awardee is anticipated in the coming weeks.
Since the establishment of the award in 1992, the Block memorial Lectureship Award recipients include:
Samuel Broder, MD
Robert C. Young, MD
Bert Vogelstein, MD
Judah Folkman, MD
V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc
Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH
Richard D. Klausner, MD
John Potter, MD, PhD
Donald Coffey, PhD
David Botstein, PhD
Daniel Von Hoff, MD
Carlo Croce, MD
Larry Norton, MD
C. Norman Coleman, MD
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
George Klein, MD, PHD