A professor at the California Institute of Technology has won a $1-million prize for his cancer research.
Alexander Varshavsky, a professor of cell biology, was awarded today the first Gotham Prize for Cancer Research for devising a new approach to cancer treatment that takes advantage of changes in the DNA of cancer cells.
Private investors and organizations created the prize last year with the goal of advancing cancer research through new ideas. Anyone eligible for the award could post proposals on a Web site that were then judged by a panel of scientists.
Mr. Varshavsky previously won a prestigious Lasker Award, in 2000, and a Wolf Foundation award, in 2001. —Hurley Goodall
