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Scientist Dies Days Before Nobel Prize Win
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04-10-2011 8:35am#1A scientist who used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer fell victim to the disease just days before he was to be told he would receive the Nobel prize for medicine.
Colleagues of Ralph Steinman at New York's Rockefeller University said the physician had prolonged his own life with a new therapy based on the research than won him the prize.
However, the 68-year-old Canadian died on Friday - three days before the award was announced - after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
"We wanted him to be here for this," his daughter Alexis Steinman said.
"We were like: 'OK Dad, I know things aren't going well but the Nobel, they are going to announce it next Monday'.
"And he's like: 'I know I have got to hold out for that. They don't give it to you if you have passed away.'"
Dr Steinman's research contributed to the launch last year of the first vaccine which is designed to kill tumours.
"This year's Nobel laureates have revolutionised our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation," the Nobel jury said in a statement.
Sweden's Nobel committee has a policy of not making posthumous awards but said it was considering the "unique" situation.
Nobel Committee secretary general Goran Hansson said that the sad news only emerged when his staff could not reach Dr Steinman to tell him that he would be sharing the $1.5m (£969,000) prize with American Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffman from France.
"I am, of course, saddened that Dr Steinman could not receive this news and feel that happiness," he said. "He was a great scientist."
The only posthumous Nobel awards were made to two Swedes: poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt, for literature, in 1931; and UN chief Dag Hammarskjold, given the 1961 peace prize weeks after dying in a plane crash while on a peacemaking mission in Africa.
http://news.sky.com/home/article/16081930
Sounds like he had made a amazing discovery and hopefully a stepping stone to a cure somewhere down the line.Sad he couldn't hold out to receive the award though
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Ah you didn't, just thought some perspective was needed, no harmSnakeblood wrote: »Sorry that I got on people's nerves.
Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test
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