© 2004 by Oxford University Press
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The American Cancer Society presented its 2004 Medal of Honor awards in February.
Tony Hunter, Ph.D., received the societys award for contributions in basic research. Hunter is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. Hunters seminal contribution to cancer research was the discovery that many cellular proteins are tyrosine kinases that are often mutated and activated in different types of cancer. In December 2002, Hunter and his