Objectives of the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Foundation

The objectives of the Dr. Josef Steiner award are:

to honor outstanding cancer research: new basic concepts, new diagnostic or therapeutic approaches and preventive methods;
to encourage those individuals who have contributed to basic knowledge of cancer by their systematic research work;
to educate the public that cancer research progress is realized in a step by step manner;
to honor even small advances in the hope that a major breakthrough in cancer research will sooner or later occur.