Einhorn
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Dr. Lawrence Einhorn, an oncologist at the IU Cancer Center, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award for Scientific Achievement by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Einhorn, an IU Distinguished Professor, has spent his career looking for better treatments for cancer patients. He is a recognized authority on the treatment of urologic and lung cancer and certain other tumors, but is perhaps best known for his work in the field of testicular cancer. In 1974, he and Dr. John Donohue, a urologist, developed a chemotherapy regimen and surgical technique for testicular cancer patients. Their research changed a disease that was frequently a death sentence to a disease with a 95 percent cure rate. Einhorn has been on the testicular cancer world stage since his best-known patient Lance Armstrong was successfully treated in 1996 by a team of specialists at the IU Cancer Center. Armstrong has since won five Tour de France championships and is about to embark on his sixth race. Part of the now-standard regimen developed by Einhorn for testicular cancer included a relatively new platinum-based drug. Today, platinum-based chemotherapy regimens are used widely in treatment many different forms of cancer including ovarian, bladder and lung.
A former president of ASCO, Einhorn was honored by the organization in 1990 with its prestigious Karnofsky Memorial Award. ASCO is the leading professional organization representing physicians who treat people with cancer. With more than 21,500 members from more than 100 countries, ASCO’s members set the standard for patient care worldwide. Einhorn has been recognized with several prestigious awards as a result of his work as a clinician researcher including the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for Cancer Research, presented in 1981 by the American Association of Cancer Research; the 1983 American Cancer Society Medal of Honor; and the 1992 Kettering Prize for Cancer Research, awarded by the General Motors Foundation. In 2001, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Einhorn received a bachelor's degree from IU and a medical degree from the University of Iowa. He completed his internship and residency at the IU School of Medicine (IUSM) and hematology/oncology fellowships at IUSM and the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas. He joined the IU faculty in 1973.
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