Herceptin: A First Assault on Oncogenes that Launched a Revolution.

Sawyers, Charles L · Cell · 2019

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Abstract

This year's Lasker Clinical Research Award honors H. Michael Shepard, Dennis J. Slamon, and Axel Ullrich for their invention of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody that blocks a cancer-causing protein, and for its development as a life-saving therapy for women with breast cancer.

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