Dr. Paul Janssen Award 2020 Webcast Ceremony and Symposium
Celebrating Champions of Science!
We're proud to announce that Dr. Lewis Cantley of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian is the 2020 winner of the Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research.
Dr. Cantley was selected by an independent committee of world-renowned scientists for the discovery of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), a key enzyme that promotes cell growth and division. His incisive research reveals the fundamental aspects of metabolism that have profound implications for the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases such as cancer and diabetes as well as rare diseases such as mosaicism.
Dr. Cantley joins 18 scientists who have received the Dr. Paul Janssen Award since 2004, including three who went on to win the Nobel Prize. The Award is part of Johnson & Johnson’s Champions of Science® Initiative to fuel public engagement, support and trust in science.
2020 Dr. Paul Janssen Award Symposium
September 16th
3 p.m. – 6 p.m. CET
Dr. Cantley will be honored at a virtual scientific symposium, presented in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences.
The event will feature presentations from leading experts on the biology of cellular metabolism and its role in human health and disease, including Matthew Vander Heiden, M.D., Ph.D. of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Karen Vousden, Ph.D., of the Francis Crick Institute, and Ulrike Philippar, Ph.D., of Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Click here to register or for additional information.
Learn more about the Paul Janssen award at www.pauljanssenaward.com.