Title:

Member and Professor of Biology

Affiliation:

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

1997

Citation:

"For his contribution to the identification of cellular oncogenes and their role in cancer, which led to a better understanding of the molecular basis for cancer and its diagnosis and therapy."

Presented by President Bill Clinton in a ceremony in Room 450, Old Executive Office Building, Tuesday, December 16, 1997.