Award, 11th International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment 2000 Charles A. LeMaistre Outstanding Achievement Award 1996 Medical Oncology Fellows Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 1996 Return of the Child Award, Leukemia Society of America 1990 First NIH Distinguished Alumni Award 1983 Charles F. Kettering Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation 1981 Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center 1979 de Villiers International Achievement Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society 1976 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award and Lecture, ASCO 1972 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research See also History of cancer chemotherapy References 1927 births 2021 deaths Scientists from Chicago American oncologists American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Cancer researchers University of Illinois alumni Fellows of the AACR Academy Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas