SF: Ucsf Researcher Wins $1 Million Prize For Advance In Cancer Treatment

A researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, has won a $1 million prize for an advance in cancer treatment, the medical school said.

Kevan Shokat, a chemical biologist, was honored Saturday by the American Association for Cancer Research for his 2013 discovery of a hidden vulnerability in a gene that’s mutated in almost 90% of pancreatic cancers, UCSF said.

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