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Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine
and Biomedical Research
Each year the Albany Medical Center honors a physician,
scientist, or group whose work has led to significant advances in the
fields of health care and biomedical research.
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2001
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Dr. Arnold J. Levine, president of Rockefeller University, for his
seminal findings as codiscoverer of the p53 gene and his ongoing
research and many other scientific contributions. |
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2002
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Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, AIDS researcher and director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for his seminal research
in AIDS and other diseases of the immune system, his overall
contributions to the advancement of science, and his distinguished
public service. |
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2003
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Dr. Michael S. Brown and Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, both
distinguished chairs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School, for their research on how a family of proteins regulates
cholesterol synthesis. Brown and Goldstein shared a 1985 Nobel Prize
in Medicine. |
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2004
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Dr. Stanley N. Cohen, distinguished professor at Stanford
University, and Dr. Herbert W. Boyer, cofounder of the biotechnology
company Genentech Inc. and professor emeritus at the University of
California at San Francisco, for their groundbreaking research
discovering recombinant DNA, known as gene cloning. Their work paved
the way for the modern biotechnology industry. |
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2005
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Robert Langer, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for developing an
implantable, biodegradable polymer that delivers chemotherapy directly
to a tumor. |
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2006
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Seymour Benzer, professor of neuroscience at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., for demonstrating that
mutations in single genes of fruit flies can radically change their
behavior. His work with the fruit fly is the foundation for the study
and treatment of human neurological diseases. |
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2007
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Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, professor of medicine and biochemistry at
Duke Univesity in Durham, N.C.; Solomon H. Snyder, MD, professor of
neurosciences, psychiatry, and pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine in Baltimore; and Ronald M. Evans, PhD, professor of gene
expression at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla,
Calif., for discovering how cells use receptors to communicate with
their environment. The discovery allowed researchers to develop drugs
including cortisone, antihistamines, anti-depressants, and
estrogens. |
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