Awards & Winners

Elise L'Esperance

Elise L'Esperance was a pathologist who was noted for establishing cancer prevention clinics in New York. She founded two clinics: the Strang Tumor Clinic in 1932 and the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic in 1937, which operated out of the New York Infirmary. In 1940, L'Esperance opened a second branch of the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic at the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. During her medical career, L'Esperance published her research prolifically, credited for approximately 30 articles in medical journals.

Awards by Elise L'Esperance

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1951


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(Joint award for their pioneer work in developing cancer detection clinics for the discovery of early cancer or precancerous lesions in presumably healthy people. )