The Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was a $250,000 award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for outstanding oncological research.

The prize was awarded annually from 1979 to 2005. Of the winners, 15 out of 37 have gone on to win either a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

in 2006, due to budget constraints, the Alfred P. Sloan Jr. prize, the Charles K. Kettering prize, and the Charles S. Mott Prize were consolidated into a single General Motors Cancer Research Award which also had a value of $250,000. The first and only winner of the General Motors Cancer Research Award was Napoleone Ferrara.

After 2006 no more prizes were awarded.

Laureates YearWinner2005Roger D. Kornberg (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006)2004Thomas J. KellyBruce Stillman2003Pierre ChambonRonald M. Evans2002John E. Sulston (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)Robert H. Waterston2001Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009)2000Avram Hershko (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004)Alexander Varshavsky1999Robert G. RoederRobert Tjian1998H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002)1997Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)1996Mark M. DavisTak Wah Mak1995Ed Harlow1994Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007)1993Hidesaburo Hanafusa1992Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)1991Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001)1990Mark Ptashne1989Donald MetcalfLeo Sachs1988Yasutomi Nishizuka1987Robert Allan Weinberg1986Phillip Allen Sharp (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993)1985Robert Schimke1984John Michael Bishop (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)Harold Elliot Varmus (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989)1983Raymond L. Erikson1982Stanley Cohen (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986)1981César Milstein (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984)Wallace P. Rowe1980Isaac Berenblum1979George Klein

See also

List of medicine awards

References