Honours
In the Australia Day Honours of 1976, he was named an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia. In the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1993, he was promoted to Companion of the Order.
Metcalf has been awarded many international prizes including the 1986 Royal Society Wellcome Prize (now the GlaxoSmithKline Prize), the 1987 Bristol-Myers Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research (jointly with Leo Sachs), the 1998 Robert Koch Prize, the 1988 Armand Hammer Prize for Cancer Research, the 1989 General Motors Cancer Foundation Sloan Prize, the 1993 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the 1993 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, the 1994 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences, the 1994 Gairdner Foundation International Award, the 1995 Royal Society Royal Medal and, in 2007, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.
In Australia Metcalf has received the 2000 Victoria Prize, the 2001 Prime Minister's Prize for Science and a Centenary Medal.
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