ABSTRACT
P53 Gene A gene which normally suppresses cancer in man. Identified by the current professor of cancer research at the University of Dundee, David Lane (b 1952) from Purley, Surrey in England. It was observed during research on tumor viruses in cells and was thought to be a contaminant until Lane started investigating it in 1978. His work showed that the abnormality of the gene led to cancer. Lane shared the Paul Ehrlich Award at Frankfurt with his co-workers, Arni Levine of Princeton University, New Jersey and Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, in 1998.
