TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Prof. Yosef Shiloh of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine is the first Israeli researcher ever to win the prestigious Clowes Award for cancer research, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Florida later this year. The prize includes a $10,000 research grant. The AACR is the world’s largest organization for cancer research.
Prof. Shiloh received the prize for his research on ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects many parts of the body and causes severe disability. Dr. Margaret Foti, the director of the AACR, describes Prof. Shiloh as “an international leader in his field and an extraordinary scientist. His work has launched a scientific revolution and opened up new horizons in the understanding of how the living cell copes with DNA damage, which is among the main factors in cancer.”
The researcher said that he was surprised by the honor. “I knew of my nomination but gave it a very small chance,” Prof. Shiloh told Asaf Shtull-Trauring in a recent issue of Ha’aretz. “Out of the 50 winners preceding me, only four were not U.S. citizens.”
For more on the prize and Prof. Shiloh’s unprecedented breakthroughs in conquering cancer, read the full story in Ha’aretz:
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