About the Academy

The Academy of Immuno-Oncology was established by SITC to honor individuals who have launched the field of cancer immunotherapy into the breakthrough cancer treatment it is today and bring together the brightest minds in the field to continue to advance SITC, the field, and the next generation of immuno-oncologists.

Annually, SITC conducts an open call for nominations and inducts a new class of Fellows into the Academy of Immuno-Oncology, one of the society’s most prestigious honors. (Actively serving nomination committee members or Board members are not eligible for nomination.) Fellows of the Academy of Immuno-Oncology bear the designation “FAIO.”

Nominations for 2022 are now closed, the Class of 2022 will be announced this summer. 

2021 SITC Fellow of the Academy of Immuno-Oncology Recipients:

Watch the inaugural class discuss their career and what their induction in to the FAIO means to them.

James P. Allison, PhD The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Watch Interview	Lieping Chen, MD, PhD Yale School of Medicine Watch Interview	Zelig Eshhar, PhD  Weizmann Institute of Science and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center	Gordon J. Freeman, PhD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Watch Interview	Philip D. Greenberg, MD  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Watch Interview

Tasuku Honjo, MD, PhD  Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Watch Interview	Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD  Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University Watch Interview	Carl H. June, MD   University of Pennsylvania Watch Interview	Alan J. Korman, PhD  Vir Biotechnology Watch Interview	Margaret L. Kripke, PhD  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Watch Interview

Ronald Levy, MD  Stanford University Watch Interview	Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health Watch Interview	Robert D. Schreiber, PhD  Washington University School of Medicine Watch Interview	Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD  Harvard Medical School Watch Interview	Thomas A. Waldmann, MD  National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health – Honored posthumously