Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Larry Norton, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Norna S. Sarofim Chair of Clinical Oncology, is the Senior Vice President in the Office of the Hospital President and Founding Medical Director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center. In 1993 he co-founded, with Evelyn H. Lauder, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He is a Past-President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and is a Fellow of ASCO, the American Association for Cancer Research Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research is broad with more than 400 published articles, but he is best known for mathematical insights in cancer therapy and biology. Major honors include ASCO’s Karnofsky and Bonadonna Awards, Columbia University’s Gold Medal, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Double Helix Award.