Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize
The Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was a $250,000
award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for outstanding oncological research.
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Roger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."
Kornberg in 2016
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Kornberg in 2006
Roger D. Kornberg (third from left) with Andrew Fire, George Smoot, Dick Cheney, Craig Mello and John C. Mather