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January 18, 2006
Samuel Danishefsky, PhD (Damon Runyon Grantee '66), Eugene W. Kettering Chair and director, laboratory for bioorganic chemistry at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, received the National Academy of Sciences award in chemical sciences for his pioneering chemical synthesis of carbohydrates for the development of anticancer vaccines.