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September 26, 2007
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, has announced the recipients of the 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, which honors young investigators who have made significant contributions to the basic understanding and treatment of cancer. The winners are Angelika Amon, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellowship Sponsor) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, who studies how chromosomes segregate during cell division; Todd R. Golub, MD (Damon Runyon Fellowship Sponsor, Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Mentor, and Innovation Award Committee Member) of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, who employs genomic approaches to better classify subtypes of cancer; and Gregory J. Hannon, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '92-'94, Damon Runyon Fellowship Sponsor and Innovation Award Committee Member) of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, who uses model systems to study the biochemistry and biology of the RNA interference mechanism.