AICF's Prize for 
Scientific Excellence in Medicine

​The nomination process for the Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine is now closed.

​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.

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The 2018 Prize Winners

Alberto Mantovani, MD
Professor, Humanitas University
Scientific Director, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS

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Nancy E. Davidson, MD
Senior Vice President, Clinical Research Division,
​Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medical Oncology,
​University of Washington
President, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

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Previous 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)

2017 Prize Winner Brunangelo Falini, MD
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2017 Prize Winner Peter K. Vogt, PhD

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