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Top cancer research award for Briton

Saturday 19 September 1998 23:02 BST
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Top cancer research award for Briton

A British scientist, Dr Paul Nurse, has won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for pioneering work in cancer research. Dr Nurse is director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The award is an honour second only to the Nobel Prize.

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