Anthony R. Hunter

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Anthony R. Hunter (born 1943) is an American biologist who is a Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego. His research publications list his name as Tony Hunter [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18180284?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Minichromosome maintenance proteins interact with ... [Mol Cell Biol. 2008 - PubMed Result ] ] .

Birth and education

Anthony R. Hunter was born in 1943 in the United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England and held a fellowship at Christ's College in Cambridge.

Research

Anthony R. Hunter is well-known for discovering that tyrosine phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism for transmembrane-signal transduction in response to growth factor stimulation and that disregulation of such tyrosine phosphorylation, by activated oncogenic protein tyrosine kinases [cite journal
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year=2008
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title=Tony Hunter: kinase king. Interview by Ruth Williams
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He won the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2005 for "the discovery of protein kinases that phosphorylate tyrosine residues in proteins, critical for the regulation of a wide variety of cellular events, including malignant transformation". [ [http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=24&cat_title=MEDICINE The Wolf Prize in Medicine] ]

Awards & Honors

*2004 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University [ [http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/hunter.html Tony Hunter at The Salk Institute] ] .
* 2006 Pasarow Award in Cancer Research [ [http://www.salk.edu/insidesalk/article.php?id=9 InsideSalk - 11|07 Issue - Tony Hunter Receives Pasarow Award for Cancer Research ] ] .
* Member of the US National Academy of Science [ [http://nrc88.nas.edu/pnas_search/memberDetails.aspx?ctID=3006605 PNAS Member Editor Details ] ] .
* 1994 Charles S. Mott Prize by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.
* 2001 Keio Medical Science Prize [ [http://www.ms-fund.keio.ac.jp/prize/winner/prize2001.html The Keio Medical Science Prize ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.wolffund.org.il/full.asp?id=21 The Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2005 (detail)]
* [http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz/ The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]