A top Oxford academic has won a major award for pioneering work which transformed scientists' understanding of cancer.
Dr Paul Nurse, 49, director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who lives in Oxford, will fly to New York on Friday to pick up his prize in the 1998 Albert Lasker Awards for Basic Medical Research.
The award, second in prestige only to the Nobel Prize, is being handed to Dr Nurse for his contribution to the discovery of the mechanism which controls the way cells divide and grow.
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