2023 Prize: Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University
Renowned cancer research leaders, composed of NFCR’s blue-ribbon Prize selection committee, elected Professor Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D. for his seminal scientific contributions demonstrating the flow of information and signaling between tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment (TME) as critical factors for understanding tumor growth and spreading. Prof. Witz will be honored at the Szent-Györgyi Prize award ceremony on October 21, 2023, at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and is Head of the Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment & Metastasis Research at The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences. His illustrious career spans over fifty years of breakthrough observations, discoveries, publications, and networking collaboration on the critical importance of the TME on the biology of the cancer cell, its growth, and advancement to metastasis.
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