Lewis Cantley
Wolf Prize Laureate in Medicine 2016
Lewis Cantley
Affiliation at the time of the award:
Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, USA
Award Citation:
“for discovery of phosphoinositide-3 kinases and their roles in physiology and disease”.
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Lewis Cantley
Cantley is widely recognized for his seminal contributions to understanding growth factor signaling, cellular metabolism, and tumor formation.
Indeed, genetic aberrations in this pathway are among the most common event in human cancer.