Also in attendance to accept the award was Tina Rosenberg Varenik, daughter of Barnett Rosenberg. This honor highlights the vital importance of federally funded curiosity-driven research and its profound impact on human health. Most notably, cisplatin increased the cure rate for testicular cancer from around 10% to over 90%. Today, the survival rate for testicular cancer is about 95%. In 1997, Hamilton, who won gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics, was diagnosed with stage 3 testicular cancer, which had spread to his stomach.