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 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 (immunologist) 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 (immunologist) 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 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
 * 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