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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
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Harold F. Dvorak, M.D., was honored with the Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research.
Dvorak works as a professor at Harvard Medical School and acts as Chief of the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deacon Medical Center. He won the award for his discovery of vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VPF/VEGF), which helped scientists understand angiogenesis and develop antibodies and therapies to counter VEGF.