Awards & Winners

Charles Brenton Huggins

Date of Birth 22-September-1901
Place of Birth Halifax
(Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada)
Nationality Canada, United States of America
Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals. Huggins was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He graduated from Acadia University with a BA degree in 1920. He then went on to study at Harvard University and received his MD degree in 1924. He died in Chicago, Illinois. His wife died in 1983.

Awards by Charles Brenton Huggins

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1966


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer)
Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his pioneer work in the treatment of cancer with hormonal substances, and his use of a chemical means of monitoring the response in carcinoma of the prostate. Both these principles have subsequently been applied to other types of cancer with good effect.)

1963


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For his role as a catalyst in modern endocrine studies of tumor control in animals and humans.)