Charles S. Mott Prize

The $250,000 Charles S. Mott Prize is awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. The Mott Prize is one of a trio scientific prizes entirely devoted to cancer research (the other prizes being the Charles F. Kettering Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize). They are generally considered the most prestigious awards in cancer research. The Mott Prize is awarded for "the most outstanding recent contribution related to the cause or prevention of cancer". The Kettering Prize is devoted to clinical advances in cancer care and the Sloane Prize is devoted to basic research having implications in cancer research. Since 2006, due to financial pressures on the corporation supporting the Foundation, the three awards have been curtailed—causing considerable consternation among cancer scientists.

Charles S. Mott Prize Recipients:

• 2005 Gerald Wogan [1]
• 2004 Charles J. Sherr [2]
• 2003 Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
• 2002 Richard Peto
• 2001 Frank E. Speizer, Walter Willett
• 2000 Bert Vogelstein
• 1999 Arnold J. Levine [3]
• 1998 Suzanne Cory, Stanley J. Korsmeyer
• 1997 M. Judah Folkman
• 1996 Paul L. Modrich, Richard D. Kolodner
• 1995 Frederick Pei Li, Joseph F. Fraumeni
• 1994 Tony Hunter
• 1993 Carlo Croce [4]
• 1992 Brian MacMahon
• 1991 Peter K. Vogt [5]
• 1990 Webster K. Cavenee, Raymond L. White [6]
• 1989 Peter C. Nowell, Janet D. Rowley
• 1988 Alfred Knudsen
• 1987 R. Palmer Beasley, Jesse Summers
• 1986 Harald zur Hausen de:Harald zur Hausen [7]
• 1985 J. Christopher Wagner
• 1984 Robert C. Gallo
• 1983 Bruce Ames
• 1982 Denis P. Burkitt
• 1981 Takashi Sugimura
• 1980 James A. Miller, Elizabeth C. Miller [8]
• 1979 Sir Richard Doll