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RECOGNITION HMS and HSPH Professors Win GM Cancer Award Walter Willett (top) and Frank Speizer were honored with the Charles S. Mott Prize for their cancer research by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. Photos by Richard Chase The General Motors Cancer Research Foundation presented Frank Speizer, the Edward H. Kass professor of medicine at HMS and codirector of the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Walter Willett, the Fredrick John Stare professor of epidemiology and nutrition and chair of the Department of Nutrition at HSPH, with the Charles S. Mott Prize. The prestigious prize, which carries a $250,000 award, honors the most outstanding contribution to the discovery of the cause or ultimate prevention of cancer. Speizer and Willett were recognized for creating and sustaining the Nurses' Health Study as well as for two companion studies, the data from which have generated some of the most important epidemiologic findings in the fields of cancer and overall public health. The two also have books forthcoming from Harvard Health Publications/Simon and Schuster: Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study is co-edited by Speizer, and Willett's book is Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating.