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The importance of this center was not rated, because it is confusing to determine from the article exactly what comprises this cancer center. Bill Pollard (talk) 04:13, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The following makes no distinction between people who passed through and people who spent significant time there, nor between who is there and who was there.

Notable Faculty

Alan Ashworth, a Fellow of the Royal Society and former director of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and part of the team that discovered the BRCA2 gene in 1995, began leading the Center in 2015.
Frank McCormick, whose work targeted ways of treating cancer based on alterations in the Ras pathway, as well as other oncogenic drivers and tumor suppressors, led the HDFCCC from 1997 to 2014.^[1]
J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus won the Nobel Prize in 1989 for discovering cancer-causing oncogenes.^[2]
Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for co-discovering telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. ^[3]
Peter Walter received the 2014 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discovery concerning the unfolded protein response. ^[4]
Laura J. Esserman was noted in Time Magazine's 2016 list of the 100 most influential people in the world^[5]
Laura J. van 't Veer received the European Inventor Award in 2015 for her gene-based breast cancer test which resulted in the patented MammaPrint test to assess early stage breast cancer patients for risk of metastasis.
Allan Balmain was awarded a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015 for his innovative use of mouse genetics.^[6]
Zena Werb was awarded the E.B. Wilson Medal by The American Society for Cell Biology in 2007.^[7]
Jeffrey Bluestone was appointed to the Blue Ribbon Panel of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative in 2015 and heads the new Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. ^[8]

References

-- Jytdog (talk) 02:11, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://profiles.ucsf.edu/frank.mccormick

[2] ttps://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1989/

[3] ttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ucsf-professor-wins-nobel-medicine-prize/article/22277

[4] ttp://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/show/unfolded-protein-response

[5] ttp://time.com/4299646/laura-esserman-and-shelley-hwang-2016-time-100/

[6] ttps://royalsociety.org/people/allan-balmain-11032/

[7] "E.B. Wilson Medal - ASCB". ASCB. Retrieved 2017-10-03.

[8] ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/13/250-million-300-scientists-and-40-labs-sean-parkers-revolutionary-project-to-solve-cancer/?utm_term=.f371196c3eaa

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