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AICF's Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine


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The annual Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine is awarded to world-class scientific researchers
who have made important ​discoveries in cancer biology, prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment.  
​The award is presented annually at the Benefit Dinner & Auctions in November.
​Please note the 2022 Prize will be awarded only if AICF's 
Benefit Dinner & Auctions will be held in person. 

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 Prize Recipients


​Robert C. Gallo, MD (1984)
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., MD (1985)
Rita Levi-Montalcini, MD (1987)
Umberto Veronesi, MD (1988)
Gianni Bonadonna, MD and Larry Norton, MD (1990)
Luisa M. Massimo, MD and Philip A. Pizzo, MD (1991)
Harold P. Freeman, MD and Lance A. Liotta, MD, PhD (1992)
Kathleen M. Foley, MD and Vittorio Ventafridda, MD (1993)
Charles M. Balch, MD, FACS and Natale Cascinelli, MD (1994)
Virgil Craig Jordan, OBE, PhD, DSc and Rosella Silvestrini, PhD (1995)
Patrick C. Walsh, MD and Francesco Pagano, MD (1996)
Carlo M. Croce, MD and Bert Vogelstein, MD (1997)
Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, MD, PhD and Rainer F. Storb, MD (1998)
Paul A. Marks, MD and Frances M. Visco, JD (1999)
Alberto Costa, MD and Paul Peter Rosen, MD (2000)
Bernard Levin, MD and Maurizio Ponz de Leon, MD (2001)
Paul A. Bunn, Jr., MD and Gabriella Sozzi, PhD (2002)
Steve Rosenberg, MD, PhD and Andrea Velardi, MD (2003)
Napoleone Ferrara, MD, PhD and Judah Folkman, MD (2004)
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD and Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD (2005)
Alessandro Massimo Gianni, MD and Irving Weissman, MD, FACS (2006)
José Baselga, MD and John Mendelsohn, MD (2007)
Ronald Levy, MD and Lee M. Nadler, MD (2008)
Brian J. Druker, MD and George D. Demetri, MD (2009)
Mina J. Bissell, PhD and Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., MD (2010)
David M. Livingston, MD and Joseph Schlessinger, PhD (2011)
Ronald A. DePinho, MD and Stephen J. Elledge, PhD (2012)
Joan Massagué, PhD and Charles J. Sherr, MD, PhD (2013)
James P. Allison, PhD and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD (2014)
Frederick W. Alt, MD and Carlos L. Arteaga, MD (2015)
Armando E Giuliano, MD and Marie-Claire King, PhD (2016)
Brunangelo Falini, MD and Peter K. Vogt, PhD (2017)
Nancy E. Davidson, MD and Alberto Mantovani, MD (2018)
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR and David M. Sabatini, MD, PhD (2019)



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