Dr. Leland Hartwell was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Medicine ‘for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle’
On Oct. 8, 2001, Dr. Leland ‘Lee’ Hartwell from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine ‘for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.’
In 1996, Hartwell joined the faculty of Seattle’s Fred Hutch and in 1997 became its president and director. In 2009, Hartwell joined the faculty of Arizona State University as the Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine and co-director of the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health.
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Source: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Credit: Photo courtesy of Fred Hutch.
