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AICF's Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine

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The Prize has been established to recognize important discoveries in cancer biology, prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment.
Two awardees will be selected and each presented with a $50,000 prize at AICF’s 2023 Benefit Dinner & Auctions
​on November 8, 2023 in New York City.
Nominations are made in two categories: excellence in clinical/translational oncology and in basic science cancer research.

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Guillermina (Gigi) Lozano, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics
Hubert L. Olive Stringer Distinguished Chair in Oncology
​in Honor of Sue Gribble Stringer 
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
John F. DiPersio, MD, Ph.D.
Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Professor in Medicine
Chief, Division of Oncology
Director, Center for Gene and Cellular Immunotherapy

​Deputy Director, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
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Washington University School of Medicine

 Prize Recipients

, PhD​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)

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD and Gigi Lozano, PhD (2022)

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