THE 2004 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS
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THE 2004 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS are Hans CLEVERS (Utrecht) and Alec J. JEFFREYS (Leicester).
Hans CLEVERS receives the 2004 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for elucidating cellular signalling pathways implicated in normal tissue development and in cancer, notably of the intestine. With the prize, Hans CLEVERS will now analyse the cause of juvenile polyposis, a disease that provokes a predisposition for intestinal cancer.
Alec J. JEFFREYS receives the 2004 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for pioneering work on developing methods to analyse human genetic variations and mutations. He developed genomic fingerprinting, a method widely applied in legal medicine for the identification of individuals. With the prize Alec J. JEFFREYS plans to study the mechanisms of DNA recombination and other types of mutagenesis, all of which are important to understand the origins of genetic diseases.
THE AWARD CEREMONY was held on Friday April 23, 2004, in Geneva (Switzerland).
