Jewish Recipients of the GM Sloan Cancer Research Prize

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Listed below are recipients of the GM Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). This prize, which has been discontinued, was awarded for outstanding, fundamental contributions in biology relevant to cancer. More than forty percent of its recipients were subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize.

George Klein (1979)
Isaac Berenblum (1980)
César Milstein (1981)
Stanley H. Cohen (1982)
Harold Varmus (1984)
Robert Weinberg (1987)
Leo Sachs (1989)
Mark Ptashne (1990)
H. Robert Horvitz (1998)
Avram Hershko (2000)
Alexander Varshavsky (2000)
Pierre Chambon ¹ (2003)
Ronald Evans (2003)
Roger Kornberg (2005)

NOTES
1. Jewish mother, née Yvonne Weill.