The first annual $1 million Gotham Prize for Cancer Research was awarded to Alexander Varshavsky, a professor of cell biology at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Varshavsky was honored for a new approach to the treatment of cancer that takes advantage of changes in the DNA of cancer cells.

The Gotham Prize was created in 2007 by two hedge-fund managers from private-investment firm Gotham Capital, Robert Goldstein and Joel Greenblatt, as well as Gary Curhan, a professor at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.

Cool way to gather ideas - wish I had of heard about this earlier - I would have liked to submit an idea...