The 2022 prize for the most significant article published the previous year in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health is awarded to:

Evolutionary selection of alleles in the melanophilin gene that impacts on prostate organ function and cancer risk, by Ermini, Luca, Jeffrey C Francis, Gabriel S Rosa, Alexandra J Rose, Jian Ning, Mel Greaves, and Amanda Swain, all from The Institute of Cancer Research in London.

First author Luca Ermini, pictured above, will present the work in a plenary session at ISEMPH 2022.

The Prize Committee also recognized three other articles as finalists.

The Prize Committee included Konstantinos Voskarides (chair), Eric Shattuck, and Jessica Hoffman,

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