page_title: Emil Frei
section_title: Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Emil Frei / Recognition
caption_attribution_description: Emil Frei worked at the National Cancer Institute from 1955 to 1965. Frei was one of a handful of physicians who developed combination chemotherapy for cancer and produced the first cures of childhood leukemia. Shown here with Ms. Edna Jones at an event at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health.
context_page_description: Emil "Tom" Frei III was an American physician and oncologist. He was the former director and former physician-in-chief of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also the Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
context_section_description: In 1972 he received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award from the Lasker Foundation "for his outstanding contribution in application of the concept of combination chemotherapy for lymphoma and acute adult leukemia." Other awards included the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award (1978); NIH Distinguished Alumni Award (1990); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999); Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research (2003); and AARC Lifetime Achievement Award (2004).
  2013 Fellow of the AACR Academy
  2004 AACR Lifetime Achievement Award
  1999 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  1997 Elected Member, Institute of Medicine
  1990 First NIH Distinguished Alumni Award
  1989 Armand Hammer Award
  1985 Hamao Umezawa Award, International Society of Chemotherapy, Infection and Cancer
  1983 Charles F. Kettering Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
  1980 Elected fellow of the American College of Physicians
  1972 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
  1971 President, AACR
  1968 President, American Society of Clinical Oncology
caption: Dr. Emil Frei with Edna Jones in 1972
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