March 4, 2016
Dr. Lewis C. Cantley has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Wolf Prize in Medicine. Dr. Cantley, who serves as the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, received this award in recognition of his groundbreaking discovery of the enzyme (PI3K) and the signaling pathway that it controls. Dr. Cantley found that human cancers frequently occur due to activation of PI3K, which has led to targeted drug development and clinical trials in the field of cancer.