Sanford Health has announced Dr. Carl June as the winner of the biennial Sanford Lorraine Cross Award, which honors life-changing breakthroughs and innovations in medical science, according to a press release Tuesday.
June is the winner of a $1 million prize for his achievements in the medical sciences, He was announced as the winner at a special ceremony in Sioux Falls.
“This was an amazing event and an extraordinary group of finalists, so it’s an honor and a thrill to be receiving this award,” said Dr. June, a Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.
Renowned immunologist and oncologist Carl June receives $1 million Sanford Lorraine Cross Award
Carl June, M.D., professor in immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the nation s largest award in medicine given by a health system.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Sanford Health, the largest provider of rural healthcare in the country, today announced Carl June, M.D. as the winner of the biennial Sanford Lorraine Cross Award which honors life-changing breakthroughs and innovations in medical science.
Sanford Health is the only health system in the country to award a $1 million prize for achievements in the medical sciences. The winner was announced at a special ceremony in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine and director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center received the award for his work in developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy.
Sanford Health $1M award given to Dr. Carl June for cancer-killing therapy
Sanford Health gave its $1 million 2021 Sanford Lorraine Cross Award to Dr. Carl June, the health system announced Tuesday, April 13. June and colleagues who developed a therapy that finds and kills leukemia cancer cells. 11:54 am, Apr. 14, 2021 ×
Sanford Health President and CEO Bill Gassen, center, presents Dr. Carl June with the $1 million Sanford Lorraine Award for June s development of a therapy that kills leukemia cancer cells, as Executive Vice President Micah Aberson looks on, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Submitted/ Sanford Health
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Sanford Health has awarded a $1 million award for medical breakthroughs to a cancer and immune system researcher who developed a therapy that finds and kills leukemia cancer cells.
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