Most Important Swiss Cancer Research Award Goes to Melody Swartz

The Swiss Cancer League's Robert Wenner Award for 2010 goes to IBI's Melody Swartz. This major Cancer research Award, attributed for the first time in 1983, benefits Swiss cancer researchers up to the age of 45. The award's recipient receive a prize of CHF 100,000, CHF 80,000 in support of an ongoing research project and CHF 20,000 as discretionary funds. The Robert Wenner Award is the most important Cancer research Award in Switzerland and was last awarded in 2007 (read press release of the Swiss Cancer League -in German- here, or download pdf here).