# 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

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* 1975: Garry Abelev 000 –Edward A. Boyse 000 –Edgar J. Foley 000 –Robert A. Good 000 –Peter A. Gorer, FRS 000 –Ludwik Gross 000 –Gertrude Henle & Werner Henle 000 –Robert J. Huebner 000 –Edmund Klein 000 –Eva Klein & George Klein 000 –Donald L. Morton 000 –Lloyd J. Old 000 –Richmond T. Prehn 000 –Hans O. Sjögren
* 1978: Howard B. Andervont 000 –Jacob Furth [Wikidata] 000 –Earl L. Green & Margaret C. Green 000 –Walter E. Heston 000 –Clarence C. Little 000 –George D. Snell 000 –Leonell C. Strong
* 1979: Yuang-yun Chu 000 –Zongtang Sun 000 –Zhao-you Tang
* 1983: Richard K. Gershon
* 1987: Thierry Boon 000 –Rolf M. Zinkernagel
* 1989: Howard Grey [Wikidata] 000 –Alain Townsend 000 –Emil Unanue
* 1993: Pamela Bjorkman 000 –John Kappler 000 –Philippa Marrack 000 –Alvaro Morales 000 –Jack Strominger 000 –Don Wiley
* 1995: Ferdy J. Lejeune [Wikidata] 000 –Malcolm A. S. Moore 000 –Timothy Springer
* 1996: Giorgio Trinchieri [Wikidata]
* 1997: Robert L. Coffman [de] 000 –Tim R. Mosmann [de] 000 –Stuart F. Schlossman [de]
* 1998: Klas Kärre 000 –Lorenzo Moretta [Wikidata] 000 –Ralph M. Steinman
* 1999: James E. Darnell, Jr. 000 –Ian M. Kerr 000 –Richard A. Lerner 000 –George Robert Stark, FRS 000 –Greg Winter
* 2000: Mark M. Davis 000 –Michael Pfreundschuh [de]
* 2001: Robert D. Schreiber
* 2002: Lewis Lanier 000 –David H. Raulet 000 –Mark J. Smyth [de]
* 2003: Jules A. Hoffmann 000 –Charles Janeway 000 –Bruno Lemaitre 000 –Ruslan Medzhitov
* 2004: Shimon Sakaguchi 000 –Ethan M. Shevach
* 2005: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology 000 –James P. Allison
* 2006: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology 000 –Shizuo Akira 000 –Bruce A. Beutler 000 –For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Ian H. Frazer 000 –Harald zur Hausen
* 2007: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology 000 –Jeffrey V. Ravetch
* 2008: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology 000 –Michael John Bevan [Wikidata], FRS
* 2009: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Cornelis Melief 000 –For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize) 000 –Frederick W. Alt 000 –Klaus Rajewsky
* 2010: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Haruo Ohtani [Wikidata] 000 –Wolf Herve Fridman [Wikidata] 000 –Jérôme Galon
* 2011: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize) 000 –Philip Greenberg 000 –Steven A. Rosenberg
* 2012: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize) 000 –Richard A. Flavell, FRS. 000 –Laurie H. Glimcher 000 –Kenneth M. Murphy [Wikidata] 000 –For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize) 000 –Carl H. June 000 –Michel Sadelain
* 2013: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology 000 –Michael B. Karin
* 2014: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize) 000 –Tasuku Honjo 000 – Lieping Chen 000 – Arlene Sharpe 000 – Gordon J. Freeman
* 2015: Glenn Dranoff [Wikidata], for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Alexander Y. Rudensky, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
* 2016: Ton N. Schumacher [Wikidata], for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Dan R. Littman, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
* 2017: Thomas F. Gajewski, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Rafi Ahmed, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
* 2018: Miriam Merad, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology 000 –Padmanee Sharma, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
* 2019:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology 000 –Zelig Eshhar 000 –Lawrence E. Samelson 000 –Brian Seed 000 –Arthur Weiss 000 –For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology 000 –Elizabeth M. Jaffee 000 –Antoni Ribas
* 2020:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology 000 –Andrea Ablasser 000 –Glen N. Barber 000 –Zhijian J. Chen 000 –Veit Hornung 000 –Russell E. Vance
* 2021:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology 000 –Katalin Karikó 000 –Drew Weissman 000 –Uğur Şahin 000 –Özlem Türeci
* 2022:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology 000 –Vishva Dixit 000 –Judy Lieberman 000 –Feng Shao 000 –Hao Wu
* 2023:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology 000 –Tak W. Mak