Hope Funds for Cancer Research Awards

Each year the Hope Funds for Cancer Research honors outstanding individuals and organizations at a white-tie gala dinner and awards ceremony. The purpose is both to give honor to these individuals but also to allow them to connect and interact with the postdoctoral Fellows to whom the Hope Funds provides research grants. Each honoree is presented with a sterling silver medal and a diploma incorporating an original piece of artwork.

Honorees: 2015

Basic Research: Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D., (Rockefeller University)
Basic Research: Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz, Ph.D., (Yale University)
Clinical Development: Napoleone Ferrara, M.D., (University of California, San Diego)
Medicine: James Holland, M.D., (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Honorees: 2014

Scientific Achievement: James D. Watson, Ph.D., (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Basic Research: Tyler Jacks, Ph.D. (Koch Institute, MIT)
Clinical Development: Charles Sawyers, M.D., (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Medicine: Daniel Von Hoff, M.D. (University of Arizona)
Advocacy: Jan T. Vilček M.D., Ph.D, (The Vilcek Foundation)

Honorees: 2013

Basic Research: Phillip Sharp, Ph.D. (MIT)
Clinical Development: Dennis Slamon, M.D., Ph.D. (UCLA)
Medicine: George Sledge, Jr, M.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Advocacy: Gary Jobson (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society)

Honorees: 2012

Basic Research: Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. (University of California, San Francisco)
Basic Research: Janet Rowley, M.D. (University of Chicago)
Clinical Development: Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Medicine: Azra Raza, M.D. (Columbia University)

Honorees: 2011

Basic Research: Joan Massagué, Ph.D. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Clinical Development: Kenneth C. Anderson, M.D. (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Medicine: Larry Norton, M.D. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Advocacy: Ellen Stovall (Founder, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS))
Philanthropy: Donald J. Listwin (Canary Foundation)

Honorees: 2010

Basic Research: James E. Darnell, Jr., M.D. (The Rockefeller University)
Clinical Development: George D. Demetri, M.D (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Medicine: Murray F. Brennan, M.D. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Advocacy: Harold P. Freeman, M.D. (Founder, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention)
Philanthropy: David H. Koch (Koch Industries)

Honorees: 2009

Basic Research: Robert A. Weinberg Ph.D. (Whitehead Institute, MIT)
Clinical Development: Brian Druker, M.D. (Oregon Health & Science University)
Medicine: John Cameron, M.D. (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Advocacy: Amy Dockser Marcus (Wall Street Journal)
Philanthropy: Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research

Honorees: 2008

Basic Research: Craig Mello, PhD (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Medicine: Malcolm A. S. Moore, DPhil] (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Advocacy: Robert Bazell (NBC News)
Philanthropy: Gilda’s Club

Honorees: 2007

Basic Research: Sir Paul Nurse, PhD (President, Royal Society)
Clinical Development: Antonio J. Grillo-Lopez, M.D. (IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Ret,)
Medicine: Judah Folkman, M.D. (Children’s Hospital, Boston)
Advocacy: Paula Kim (Founder, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network)
Philanthropy: Corporate Angel Network