The William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology is presented annually by the Cancer Research Institute, Inc., 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 Dr. 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, Dr. Coley has become known as the "Father of Cancer Immunotherapy."

Recipients

2010

For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology

• Haruo Ohtani
• Wolf Herve Fridman
• Jerome Galon

2009

For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology

• Cornelis J.M. Melief, M.D., Ph.D.

For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize)

• Frederick W. Alt, Ph.D.
• Klaus Rajewsky
  Klaus Rajewsky
  Klaus Rajewsky is a German immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells.He studied medicine in Frankfurt, Munich and at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. In 1964, he started working at the Institute of Genetics in the University of Cologne, where he became professor for genetics. He researched...
  
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2008

• Michael J. Bevan, Ph.D., FRS

2007

• Jeffrey V. Ravetch

2006

• Shizuo Akira
  Shizuo Akira
  , M.D., Ph.D., is a distinguished and highly cited professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan...
  
  
• Bruce A. Beutler
  Bruce A. Beutler
  Bruce Alan Beutler is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, they received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" Bruce Alan Beutler (born December 29, 1957) is an American...
  
  
• Ian H. Frazer
• Harald zur Hausen
  Harald zur Hausen
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2005

• James P. Allison

2004

• Shimon Sakaguchi
• Ethan M. Shevach

2003

• Jules A. Hoffmann
  Jules A. Hoffmann
  Jules A. Hoffmann is a Luxembourgish-born French biologist. He is a research director and member of the board of administrators of the National Center of Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he became President of the French Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• Charles Janeway
  Charles Janeway
  Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. was a noted immunologist. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he held a faculty position at Yale University's Medical School and was an HHMI Investigator....
  
  
• Bruno Lemaitre
• Ruslan Medzhitov
  Ruslan Medzhitov
  Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator...
  
  

2002

• Lewis L. Lanier
• David H. Raulet
• Mark J. Smyth

2001

• Robert D. Schreiber
  Robert D. Schreiber
  Robert D. Schreiber Robert D. Schreiber Robert D. Schreiber ((born 1946) is an immunologist and currently is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine. Schreiber has led a major revision in our understanding of how the immune system...
  
  

2000

• Mark M. Davis
• Michael Pfreundschuh

1999

• James E. Darnell, Jr.
• Ian M. Kerr
• Richard A. Lerner
• George R. Stark
• Greg Winter
  Greg Winter
  Sir Gregory Winter FRS is a British pioneer of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise and, later, to fully humanise using phage display, antibodies for therapeutic uses...
  
  

1998

• Klas Kärre
  Klas Kärre
  Klas Kärre is a Swedish immunologist.Kärre received his doctorate in 1981 at Karolinska Institutet and is a professor of molecular immunology at Karolinska Institutet since 1993....
  
  
• Lorenzo Moretta
• Ralph M. Steinman
  Ralph M. Steinman
  Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 coined the term dendritic cells while working as a postdoc in the lab of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University....
  
  

1997

• Robert L. Coffman
• Tim R. Mosmann
• Stuart F. Schlossman

1996

• Giorgio Trinchieri

1995

• Ferdy J. Lejeune
• Malcolm A.S. Moore
• Timothy Springer

1993

• Pamela Bjorkman
• John Kappler
  John Kappler
  John W. Kappler is a professor in the Department of Integrated Immunology at National Jewish Health. His principal research is in T cell biology, a subject he collaborates on with his wife Philippa Marrack...
  
  
• Philippa Marrack
  Philippa Marrack
  Philippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS is an English biologist, based in the United States, best-known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome. She collaborates with...
  
  
• Alvaro Morales
• Jack Strominger
• Don Wiley

1989

• Howard Grey
• Alain Townsend
• Emil Unanue

1987

• Thierry Boon
  Thierry Boon
  Thierry Boon is a Belgian scientist, Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Branch in and professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain...
  
  
• Rolf M. Zinkernagel
  Rolf M. Zinkernagel
  Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.-Career:...
  
  

1983

• Richard K. Gershon

1979

• Yuang-yun Chu
• Zongtang Sun
• Zhao-you Tang

1978

• Howard B. Andervont
• Jacob Furth
• Earl L. Green & Margaret C. Green
• Walter E. Heston
• Clarence C. Little
• George D. Snell
• Leonell C. Strong

1975

• Garry I. Abelev
• Edward A. Boyse
  Edward Boyse
  Edward A. Boyse was a British-born, American physician and biologist best known for his research on the immune system and pheromones. Boyse was born in Worthing, England and studied medicine at the University of London....
  
  
• Edgar J. Foley
• Robert A. Good
  Robert A. Good
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• Peter A. Gorer
• Ludwik Gross
  Ludwik Gross
  Ludwik Gross was a Polish-American virologist who discovered two different tumor viruses, murine leukemia virus and mouse polyomavirus, capable of causing cancers in laboratory mice. Gross was born in Cracow, Poland to a prominent Jewish family and studied for a degree in medicine at the...
  
  
• Gertrude Henle & Werner Henle
• Robert J. Huebner
• Edmund Klein
• Eva Klein & George Klein
  George Klein (biologist)
  George Klein is a biologist who has specialized in studying certain types of tumors. He started a tumor biology center at Karolinska Institute and made a connection there between the epstein-Barr virus and lymphomas and other cancers. He is married to Eva Klein, also a biologist, and has a son...
  
  
• Donald L. Morton
• Lloyd J. Old
• Richmond T. Prehn
• Hans O. Sjogren