The 2012 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Healthcare and Medical Technology
• Achievement:
  Development of a new therapeutic drug targeting cancer-specific molecules
• Lecture:
  Successful Approach Targeting Leukemic Cells
• Lecture:
  Successful Approach Targeting Leukemic Cells

Major Honors

1996	Gairdner Foundation International Award
1998	Lasker Award
1999	National Medal of Science
2009	Presidential Medal of Freedom
2009	The Gruber Prize in Genetics
2010	Lifetime Achievement Award in Cancer Research by AACR
2011	Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize by American Society of Hematology

Membership

1984	Member, the National Academy of Science
1993	American Philosophical Society

Academic Degrees

1946	B.S. from the University of Chicago
1948	M.D. from the University of Chicago

Professional Career

1969-1977	Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
1977-	Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
1984-	Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
Present	The Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago

Major Publications

• Rowley JD. A new consistent chromosomal abnormality in chronic myelogenous leukaemia identified by quinacrine fluorescence and Giemsa staining. Nature 243:290-293, 1973.
• Rowley JD. Chromosomal patterns in myelocytic leukemia. N Engl J Med 289:220-221, 1973
• Lindgren V, Rowley JD. Comparable complex rearrangements involving 8;21 and 9;22 translocations in leukaemia. Nature 266, 744-745, 1977