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« Short White Coat: Learning my 'doctoring style' | Main | Lahey analysis: Diabetes drugs increase risk of heart failure but not death » Thursday, September 27, 2007NotablesResearchers from Boston and Cambridge have won two of three prizes for young cancer investigators.
Amon studies how chromosomes segregate during cell division and Golub uses genomic approaches to classify subtypes of cancer. They will share a $150,000 prize with the third winner, Gregory J. Hannon of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who studies the biology and biochemistry of RNA interference. All three winners are also Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 03:31 PM
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Angelika Amon (left) of MIT and Dr. Todd R. Golub of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT will receive the 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The prize recognizes contributions to understanding the treatment of cancer made by scientists under the age of 45.