The William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology is presented annually by the Cancer Research Institute, to scientists^[1] 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,^[2] 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:^[3]

• 1975: Garry Abelev
  000 –Edward A. Boyse
  000 –Edgar J. Foley
  000 –Robert A. Good
  000 –Peter A. Gorer, FRS
  000 –Ludwik Gross
  000 –Gertrude Henle & Werner Henle
  000 –Robert J. Huebner
  000 –Edmund Klein
  000 –Eva Klein & George Klein
  000 –Donald L. Morton
  000 –Lloyd J. Old
  000 –Richmond T. Prehn
  000 –Hans O. Sjögren
• 1978: Howard B. Andervont
  000 –Jacob Furth [Wikidata]
  000 –Earl L. Green & Margaret C. Green
  000 –Walter E. Heston
  000 –Clarence C. Little
  000 –George D. Snell
  000 –Leonell C. Strong
• 1979: Yuang-yun Chu
  000 –Zongtang Sun
  000 –Zhao-you Tang
• 1983: Richard K. Gershon
• 1987: Thierry Boon
  000 –Rolf M. Zinkernagel
• 1989: Howard Grey [Wikidata]
  000 –Alain Townsend
  000 –Emil Unanue
• 1993: Pamela Bjorkman
  000 –John Kappler
  000 –Philippa Marrack
  000 –Alvaro Morales
  000 –Jack Strominger
  000 –Don Wiley
• 1995: Ferdy J. Lejeune [Wikidata]
  000 –Malcolm A. S. Moore
  000 –Timothy Springer
• 1996: Giorgio Trinchieri [Wikidata]
• 1997: Robert L. Coffman [de]
  000 –Tim R. Mosmann [de]
  000 –Stuart F. Schlossman [de]
• 1998: Klas Kärre
  000 –Lorenzo Moretta [Wikidata]
  000 –Ralph M. Steinman
• 1999: James E. Darnell, Jr.
  000 –Ian M. Kerr
  000 –Richard A. Lerner
  000 –George Robert Stark, FRS
  000 –Greg Winter
• 2000: Mark M. Davis
  000 –Michael Pfreundschuh [de]
• 2001: Robert D. Schreiber
• 2002: Lewis Lanier
  000 –David H. Raulet
  000 –Mark J. Smyth [de]
• 2003: Jules A. Hoffmann
  000 –Charles Janeway
  000 –Bruno Lemaitre
  000 –Ruslan Medzhitov
• 2004: Shimon Sakaguchi
  000 –Ethan M. Shevach
• 2005: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
  000 –James P. Allison
• 2006: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
  000 –Shizuo Akira
  000 –Bruce A. Beutler
  000 –For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Ian H. Frazer
  000 –Harald zur Hausen
• 2007: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
  000 –Jeffrey V. Ravetch
• 2008: For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
  000 –Michael John Bevan [Wikidata], FRS
• 2009: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Cornelis Melief
  000 –For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize)
  000 –Frederick W. Alt
  000 –Klaus Rajewsky
• 2010: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Haruo Ohtani [Wikidata]
  000 –Wolf Herve Fridman [Wikidata]
  000 –Jérôme Galon
• 2011: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize)
  000 –Philip Greenberg^[4]
  000 –Steven A. Rosenberg
• 2012: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology (joint prize)
  000 –Richard A. Flavell, FRS.
  000 –Laurie H. Glimcher
  000 –Kenneth M. Murphy [Wikidata]
  000 –For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize)
  000 –Carl H. June
  000 –Michel Sadelain
• 2013: For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
  000 –Michael B. Karin
• 2014: For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology (joint prize)
  000 –Tasuku Honjo
  000 – Lieping Chen
  000 – Arlene Sharpe
  000 – Gordon J. Freeman
• 2015: Glenn Dranoff [Wikidata], for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Alexander Y. Rudensky, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
• 2016: Ton N. Schumacher [Wikidata], for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Dan R. Littman, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology^[5]
• 2017: Thomas F. Gajewski, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Rafi Ahmed, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
• 2018: Miriam Merad, for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
  000 –Padmanee Sharma, for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology^[6]
• 2019:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology
  000 –Zelig Eshhar
  000 –Lawrence E. Samelson
  000 –Brian Seed
  000 –Arthur Weiss
  000 –For Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology
  000 –Elizabeth M. Jaffee
  000 –Antoni Ribas
• 2020:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
  000 –Andrea Ablasser
  000 –Glen N. Barber
  000 –Zhijian J. Chen
  000 –Veit Hornung
  000 –Russell E. Vance
  
• 2021:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
  000 –Katalin Karikó
  000 –Drew Weissman
  000 –Uğur Şahin
  000 –Özlem Türeci
  
• 2022:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
  000 –Vishva Dixit
  000 –Judy Lieberman
  000 –Feng Shao
  000 –Hao Wu
  
• 2023:For Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and Tumor Immunology
  000 –Tak W. Mak