2020 Team Science Awardees

This award recognizes teams of scientists that have made a long-standing contribution to the field to cancer immunotherapy over the past 35 years. The teams and individuals listed below were honored as part of SITC's 35th Anniversary Annual Meeting.

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Advanced T cell Engineering Against Malignancies (A-TEAM)

Amy Marshall
Andrea Brennan
Andrew Fesnak
Anlan Dai
Anne Chew
Avery Gaymon
Bruce Levine
Carl June
Diane Frazee
Donald Siegel		 Elizabeth Hexner
Gabriela Plesa
Gina Young
Joan Gilmore
John Scholler
Julie Jadlowsky
Jun Xu
Karen Dengel
Kurt Buchholz
Les Lledo
 Liz Veloso
Megan Davis
Naseem Kerr
Neil Sheppard
Rachel Leskowitz
Simon Lacey
Sophia Ngo
Stephen McKenna
Theresa Colligon
Vanessa Gonzalez


Earle A. Chiles Research Institute

Andrew Weinberg, PhD
Bernard Fox, PhD
Brendan Curti, MD
Brian Piening, PhD
Bryan Bell, MD, DDS
Carlo Bifulco, MD
Carmen Ballesteros-Merino, PhD
Christian Poehlein, MD
Christopher Twitty, PhD		 David Page, MD
Edwin Walker, PhD
Emmanuel Akporiaye, PhD
Eric Tran, PhD
Hong-Ming Hu, PhD
John Godwin, MD
Keith Bahjat, PhD
Kristina Young, MD, PhD
Marka Crittenden, MD, PhD		 Michael Gough, PhD
Nick Morris, PhD
Rachel Sanborn, MD
Rom Leidner, MD
Shawn Jensen, PhD
Walter Urba, MD, PhD
Will Redmond, PhD
Yoshi Koguchi, PhD


Hopkins Immunotherapy Team

Chuck Drake, MD, PhD
Cynthia Sears, MD
Dan Laheru, MD
Drew Pardoll, MD, PhD
Dung Le, MD
Elizabeth Jaffee, MD, PhD		 Hy Levitsky, MD, PhD
Ivan Borrello, MD
Janis Taube, MD, MS
Jonathan Powell, MD, PhD
Julie Brahmer, MD
Kellie Smith, PhD		 Lei Zheng, MD, PhD
Leisha Emens, MD
Patrick Forde, MBBCh
Robert Anders, MD, PhD
Suzanne Topalian, MD


Immunotherapy of Human Tumors

Andrea Anichini, PhD
Arabella Mazzocchi, PhD
Chiara Castelli, PhD
Cristina Maccalli, PhD
Danilo Parolini, MD
Filiberto Belli, MD
Filippo Belardelli, PhD
Franco Marincola, MD
Giorgio Parmiani, MD
Giuseppe della Porta, MD
Giuseppe Fossati, MD		 Giuseppina Carbone, MD
Gloria Sovena
Guido Forni, MD
Vincenzo Russo, MD
John Kirkwood, MD
Licia Rivoltini, MD
Lorenzo Pilla, MD
Maria Ines Colnaghi, PhD
Marialuisa Sensi, PhD
Mario Colombo, PhD
Meenhard Herlyn, MD		 Michele Maio, MD, PhD
Monica Rodolfo, PhD
Natale Cascinelli, MD
Paolo Dellabona, PhD
PierGiorgio Natali, MD
Pierre F. Coulie, MD, PhD
Roberta Mortarini, PhD
Soldano Ferrone, MD
Thierry Boon, MD
Vincenzo Mazzaferro
Wolf Herman Fridman, MD


Lausanne Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Alexandre Harari PhD, Privat-Docent
Camilla Jandus, MD, PhD
Caroline Arber Barth, MD
Daniel Speiser, PhD
Danila Valmori
David Gfeller, PhD
Douglas Hanahan, PhD
Ferdy Lejeune, MD, PhD
Freddy Radtke, PhD
Frederic Levy

 George Coukos, MD, PhD
Hugh Robson MacDonald
Immanuel Luescher, PhD
Janet Maryanski
Jean-Charles Cerottini, MD
Jean-Pierre Mach
Johanna Joyce, PhD
Lana Kandalaft, PhD
Lorenzo Moretta, MD
Melita Irving, PhD		 Michal Bassani-Sternberg, PhD,
Privat-Docent
Nathalie Rufer, PhD, MD
Olivier Michielin, MD, PhD
Pedro Romero, MD
Ping-Chih Ho, PhD
Stefan Carrel
Steve Dunn, PhD
Tatiana Petrova, PhD
Vincent Zoete, PhD


The Lloyd J. Old Lab Family

Alan Houghton, MD, PhD
Alex Knuth, MD
Andrew Scott
Bob Schrieber, PhD
Danila Valmori
Dirk Jager, MD
Elke Jager, MD
Gerd Ritter, PhD		 Herbert Oettgen, MD
Hiroshi Shiku, MD, PhD
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa, MD, PhD
James P. Allison, PhD
Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD
Jonathan Cebon, MBBS, PhD
Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD
Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD		 Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD
Paul Chapman, MD
Phil Livingston, MD
Pilar Garin-Chesa, MD, PhD
Pramod Srivastava, MD, PhD
Sacha Gnjatic, PhD
Wolfgang Rettig, PhD
Yuji Noguchi, PhD


The NCI Cancer Immunotherapy Program

Albert F. LoBuglio, MD
Ann Thor, MD
Arun Rajan, MD
Caroline Jochems, MD, PhD
Christopher R. Heery, MD
Claudia Palena, PhD
Clint T. Allen, MD
David M. Colcher, PhD, MPH
Dennis L. Panicali, PhD
Donald W. Kufe, MD
Duane H. Hamilton, PhD
Fiorella Guadagni, MD, PhD, MDA		 H. Kim Lyerly, MD
Helen Sabzevari, PhD
Howard L. Kaufman, MD
James L. Gulley, MD, PhD, FACP
James W. Hodge, PhD, MBA
Jeffrey Schlom, PhD
John L. Marshall, MD
John W. Greiner, PhD
Jorge Carrasquillo, MD
Julius Strauss, MD
Kwong Yok Tsang, PhD		 Mario Roselli, MD, PhD
Patricia H. Hand, PhD
Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
Ravi A. Madan, MD
Renee N. Donahue, PhD
Scott Abrams, PhD
Shahrooz Rabizadeh, PhD
Sofia R. Gameiro, PhD
Steven M. Larson, MD
William L. Dahut, MD


Synthetic Long Peptide (SLP) Stream

Alice Sijts, PhD
Annemieke de Jong, PhD
Annemieke den Boer, PhD
Bonnie Glisson, MD, PhD
Jacobus Bosch, MD, PhD
Cornelis JM Melief, MD, PhD
Danita Schuurhuis, PhD
Erik Hooijberg, PhD
Erminia Massarelli, MD, PhD
Ferry Ossendorp, PhD
Frank Miedema, PhD
Geertje van Mierlo, PhD
Gemma Kenter, MD, PhD
George ten Bosch, PhD
Gijs Zom, PhD
Hans Nijman, MD, PhD
Ignace Vergote, MD, PhD
Jaap Oostendorp, PhD
Jan Wouter Drijfhout, PhD		 Judith Kroep, MD, PhD
Leo de Waal, PhD
Leon Hooftman, MD, PhD
Linda Diehl, PhD
Maaike Ressing, PhD
Marie-Claire Boog, PhD
Marieke Fransen, PhD
Mariet Feltkamp, MD, PhD
Paul Waterhouse, PhD
Mariette van Poelgeest, MD, PhD
Marij Stukart, PhD
Marjan Visseren, PhD
Marjolein Lauwen, PhD
Marloes de Bruijn, PhD
Martijn Bijker, PhD
Martin Kast, PhD
Miriam Ossevoort, PhD
Rene Toes, PhD
Reza Karim, PhD		 Rick Stead, MD, PhD
Rienk Offringa, PhD
Rinke Bos, PhD
Rodney Rosalia, PhD
Roger Sutmuller, PhD
Rosalie Luiten, PhD
Sander Zwaveling, MD, PhD
Sara Mangsbo, PhD
Sjoerd van der Burg, PhD
Sonja Visscher
Steve Schoenberger, PhD
Tetje van der Sluis, PhD
Thorbald van hall, PhD
Wies Vasmel, MD, PhD
Willem-Jan Krebber, PhD
Wim Vuist, PhD
Winald Gerritsen, MD, PhD


Team TOMI (Toronto Ohashi Mak Immunotherapy)

Aikichi Iwamoto, MD, DMSci
Akira Suzuki, MD, PhD
Alisha Elford
Ben Wang, PhD
Carlos Garcia-Batres, MSc
Daniel Speiser, PhD
David Brooks, PhD
Dilan Dissanayake, MD, PhD
Douglas Millar, PhD
Drew Wakeham
Eric Sebzda, PhD
Gordon Duncan, Msc
Hans-Willi Mittrücker, PhD		 Jurgen Ruland, MD, PhD
Karl Lang, MD, PhD
Klaus Pfeffer, MD, PhD
Lillian Siu, MD
Linh Nguyen, PhD
Lorenz Trümper, MD, PhD
Marc Pellegrini, PhD
Marcus Butler, MD
Martin Bachmann, PhD
Maureen Cox, PhD
Michael Lohoff, MD, PhD
Naoto Hirano, MD, PhD		 Paul Waterhouse, PhD
Philipp Lang, PhD
Russell Jones, PhD
Sarah Crome, PhD
Shawn Kubli, PhD
Thomas Calzascia, PhD
Thomas Kündig, MD
Toshifumi Matsuyama, MD, PhD
Tracy McGaha, PhD
Woong-Kyung Suh, PhD
Yasunobu Yoshikai, PhD
Yusuke Yanagi, PhD


Tumor Microenvironment Study Pole (TMSP), Paris

Antoine Italiano
Aurelien de Reynies
Catherine Sautes-Fridman
Christian Bonnerot
Eric Tartour
Etienne Becht
 Florent Petitprez
Franck Pagès
Jean-Luc Teillaud
Jerome Galon
Marc Daëron
Marie-Caroline Dieu-Nosjean
Maxime Meylan		 Nicolas Giraldo
Sebastian Amigorena
Stephane Oudard
Xavier Cathelineau
Yann Vano

Wolf H Fridman


The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

Alexander Rakhmilevich, MD, PhD
Amy Erbe-Gurel, PhD
Anna Huttenlocher, MD
Christian Capitini, MD
Cindy Zuleger, PhD
Chris Zahm, PhD
David Mahvi, MD
David Vail, DVM
Douglas McNeel, MD, PhD
Erik Ranheim, MD, PhD
Ernest Borden, MD
Greg MacEwen, DVM




 Ilia Buhtoiarov, MD
Inga Hofmann, MD
Jacquelyn Hank, PhD
Jacques Galipeau, MD
Jamey Weichert, PhD
Jenny Gumperz, PhD
Joan Schiller, MD
Ken DeSantes, MD
Kim McDowell, MD, PhD
KyungMann Kim, PhD
Laura Johnson, PhD
Manish Patankar, PhD		 Mario Otto, MD
Mark Albertini, MD
Michael Trigg, MD
Miroslav Malkovsky, MD, PhD
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD
Peter Kohler, MD
Richard Hong, MD
Richard Smalley, MD
Stuart Helfand, DVM
Will Burlingham, PhD
Zachary Morris, MD, PhD