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 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, 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:
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
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
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
  • 1989:
Alain Townsend
Emil Unanue
John Kappler
Philippa Marrack
Alvaro Morales
Jack Strominger
Don Wiley
  • 1995:
Malcolm A. S. Moore
Timothy Springer
Ralph M. Steinman
Ian M. Kerr
Richard A. Lerner
George Robert Stark, FRS
Greg Winter
David H. Raulet
Charles Janeway
Bruno Lemaitre
Ruslan Medzhitov
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
, FRS
  • 2009: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Cornelis Melief
For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Frederick W. Alt
Klaus Rajewsky
  • 2010: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Jérôme Galon
  • 2011: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Philip Greenberg
Steven A. Rosenberg
  • 2012: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Richard A. Flavell, FRS.
Laurie H. Glimcher
For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Carl H. June
Michel Sadelain
  • 2013: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
Michael B. Karin
  • 2014: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Tasuku Honjo
Lieping Chen
Arlene Sharpe
Gordon J. Freeman
  • 2015:, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Alexander Y. Rudensky, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
  • 2016:, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
Dan R. Littman, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology'
Mark Anderson MD PhD