Tony Hunter, who holds an American Cancer Society Professorship at the Salk Institute, has been awarded $500,000 as part of the $1 million Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ inaugural Sjöberg Prize for Cancer Research for “groundbreaking studies of cellular processes that have led to the development of new and effective cancer drugs.”
An analysis by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer casts doubt on validity of an endpoint used in key studies of multi-cancer detection tests.
