william b. coley award 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: 1975: garry abelev000 –edward a. boyse000 –edgar j. foley000 –robert a. good000 –peter a. gorer, frs000 –ludwik gross000 –gertrude henle & werner henle000 –robert j. huebner000 –edmund klein000 –eva klein & george klein000 –donald l. morton000 –lloyd j. old000 –richmond t. prehn000 –hans o. sjögren 1978: howard b. andervont000 –jacob furth000 –earl l. green & margaret c. green000 –walter e. heston000 –clarence c. little000 –george d. snell000 –leonell c. strong 1979: yuang-yun chu000 –zongtang sun000 –zhao-you tang 1983: richard k. gershon 1987: thierry boon000 –rolf m. zinkernagel 1989: howard grey000 –alain townsend000 –emil unanue 1993: pamela bjorkman000 –john kappler000 –philippa marrack000 –alvaro morales000 –jack strominger000 –don wiley 1995: ferdy j. lejeune000 –malcolm a. s. moore000 –timothy springer 1996: giorgio trinchieri 1997: robert l. coffman000 –tim r. mosmann000 –stuart f. schlossman 1998: klas kärre000 –lorenzo moretta000 –ralph m. steinman 1999: james e. darnell, jr.000 –ian m. kerr000 –richard a. lerner000 –george robert stark, frs000 –greg winter 2000: mark m. davis000 –michael pfreundschuh 2001: robert d. schreiber 2002: lewis lanier000 –david h. raulet000 –mark j. smyth 2003: jules a. hoffmann000 –charles janeway000 –bruno lemaitre000 –ruslan medzhitov 2004: shimon sakaguchi000 –ethan m. shevach 2005: for distinguished research in basic and tumor immunology000 –james p. allison 2006: for distinguished research in basic immunology000 –shizuo akira000 –bruce a. beutler000 –for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –ian h. frazer000 –harald zur hausen 2007: for distinguished research in basic and tumor immunology000 –jeffrey v. ravetch 2008: for distinguished research in basic and tumor immunology000 –michael john bevan, frs 2009: for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –cornelis j. m. melief000 –for distinguished research in basic immunology (joint prize)000 –frederick w. alt000 –klaus rajewsky 2010: for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –haruo ohtani000 –wolf herve fridman000 –jérôme galon 2011: for distinguished research in tumor immunology (joint prize)000 –philip d. greenberg000 –steven a. rosenberg 2012: for distinguished research in basic immunology (joint prize)000 –richard a. flavell, frs.000 –laurie h. glimcher000 –kenneth m. murphy000 –for distinguished research in tumor immunology (joint prize)000 –carl h. june000 –michel sadelain 2013: for distinguished research in basic immunology000 –michael b. karin 2014: for distinguished research in tumor immunology (joint prize)000 –tasuku honjo000 – lieping chen000 – arlene sharpe000 – gordon j. freeman000 – 2015: glenn dranoff, for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –alexander y. rudensky, for distinguished research in basic immunology 2016: ton n. schumacher, for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –dan r. littman, for distinguished research in basic immunology 2017: thomas f. gajewski, for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –rafi ahmed, for distinguished research in basic immunology 2018: miriam merad, for distinguished research in basic immunology000 –padmanee sharma, for distinguished research in tumor immunology 2019:for distinguished research in basic immunology000 –zelig eshhar 000 –lawrence e. samelson000 –brian seed000 –arthur weiss000 –for distinguished research in tumor immunology000 –elizabeth m. jaffee 000 –antoni ribas 2020:for distinguished research in basic immunology and tumor immunology000 –andrea ablasser 000 –glen n. barber000 –zhijian j. chen000 –veit hornung000 –russell e. vance000 –