William B.
Coley Award
The William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology is
presented annually by the Cancer Research Institute, to scientists[1] who have made outstanding
achievements in the fields of basic and tumor immunology and whose work has deepened our
understanding of the immune system's response to disease, including cancer.
The first awards were made in 1975 to a group of 16 scientists called the "Founders of Cancer
Immunology." In 1993, the award was renamed after William B. Coley,[2] a late-nineteenth century
surgeon who made the first attempts at the non-surgical treatment of cancer through stimulation of the
immune system. For this reason, Coley has become known as the "Father of Cancer Immunotherapy."
Recipients
Source:[3]
1975: Garry Abelev
Edward A. Boyse
Edgar J. Foley
Robert A. Good
Peter A. Gorer, FRS
Ludwik Gross
Gertrude Henle & Werner Henle
Robert J. Huebner
Edmund Klein
Eva Klein & George Klein
Donald L. Morton
Lloyd J. Old
Richmond T. Prehn
Hans O. Sjögren
1978: Howard B. Andervont
Jacob Furth
Earl L. Green & Margaret C. Green
Walter E. Heston
Clarence C. Little
George D. Snell
Leonell C. Strong
1979: Yuang-yun Chu
Zongtang Sun
Zhao-you Tang
1983: Richard K. Gershon
1987: Thierry Boon
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1989: Howard Grey
Alain Townsend
Emil Unanue
1993: Pamela Bjorkman
John Kappler
Philippa Marrack
Alvaro Morales
Jack Strominger
Don Wiley
1995: Ferdy J. Lejeune
Malcolm A. S. Moore
Timothy Springer
1996: Giorgio Trinchieri
1997: Robert L. Coffman
Tim R. Mosmann
Stuart F. Schlossman
1998: Klas Kärre
Lorenzo Moretta
Ralph M. Steinman
1999: James E. Darnell, Jr.
Ian M. Kerr
Richard A. Lerner
George Robert Stark, FRS
Greg Winter
2000: Mark M. Davis
Michael Pfreundschuh
2001: Robert D. Schreiber
2002: Lewis Lanier
David H. Raulet
Mark J. Smyth
2003: Jules A. Hoffmann
Charles Janeway
Bruno Lemaitre
Ruslan Medzhitov
2004: Shimon Sakaguchi
Ethan M. Shevach
2005: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
James P. Allison
2006: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Shizuo Akira
Bruce A. Beutler
For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Ian H. Frazer
Harald zur Hausen
2007: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
Jeffrey V. Ravetch
2008: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
Michael John Bevan, FRS
2009: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Cornelis Melief
For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize)
Frederick W. Alt
Klaus Rajewsky
2010: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Haruo Ohtani
Wolf Herve Fridman
Jérôme Galon
2011: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize)
Philip Greenberg[4]
Steven A. Rosenberg
2012: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize)
Richard A. Flavell, FRS.
Laurie H. Glimcher
Kenneth M. Murphy
For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize)
Carl H. June
Michel Sadelain
2013: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Michael B. Karin
2014: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize)
Tasuku Honjo
Lieping Chen
Arlene Sharpe
Gordon J. Freeman
2015: Glenn Dranoff, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Alexander Y. Rudensky, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
2016: Ton N. Schumacher, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Dan R. Littman, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology[5]
2017: Thomas F. Gajewski, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Rafi Ahmed, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
2018: Miriam Merad, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Padmanee Sharma, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology[6]
2019:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Zelig Eshhar
Lawrence E. Samelson
Brian Seed
Arthur Weiss
For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Elizabeth M. Jaffee
Antoni Ribas
2020:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
Andrea Ablasser
Glen N. Barber
Zhijian J. Chen
Veit Hornung
Russell E. Vance
2021:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
Katalin Karikó
Drew Weissman
Uğur Şahin
Özlem Türeci
2022:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
Vishva Dixit
Judy Lieberman
Feng Shao
Hao Wu
2023:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
Tak W. Mak
See also
List of biomedical science awards
References
1. William B. Coley Award (http://www.cancerresearch.org/about/annual-awards/william-b-cole
y-award) Retrieved February 7, 2019.
2. "CRI History" (https://www.cancerresearch.org/about-cri/cri-history). Retrieved February 7,
2019.
3. Cancer Research Institute (http://www.cancerresearch.org/about/annual-awards/william-b-c
oley-award)
4. "Greenberg receives immunotherapy award" (https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-new
s/2011/09/Greenberg-immunotherapy-award.html). fredhutch.org. September 26, 2011.
5. "Cancer Research Institute to Honor Three Scientists for Outstanding Contributions to
Cancer Immunotherapy Research" (http://www.cancerresearch.org/news-publications/news-
at-cri/2016/cancer-research-institute-to-honor-three-scientists-for-outstanding-contributions-t
o-cancer-immunotherapy-research). Cancer Research Institute. July 26, 2016. Retrieved
February 7, 2019.
6. "Three Scientists to Receive Top Honors from the Cancer Research Institute for Outstanding
Contributions to Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy" (https://www.cancerresearch.org/
news/2018/merad-sharma-reizis-coley-alt-awards-2018). Cancer Research Institute.
September 10, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
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