AMC Prize winners

posted Mar 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM

This year's Albany Medical Center Prize is going to three researchers who have played key roles in the effort to map the human genome: Francis Collins, Eric Lander and David Botstein. At $500k, the AMC Prize is the biggest award given out in the US for science or medicine.

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