for outstanding preclinical research in the fields of medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, or tumor biology as related to drug discovery, that has implications for the improved care of cancer patients. (Final award was presented in 2006.)
- 2006 Julian Adams
- 2005 Napoleone Ferrara
- 2004 Dennis A. Carson
- 2003 Malcolm F. G. Stevens
- 2002 Alex Matter, Nicholas B. Lydon, Jürg Zimmermann, Elisabeth Buchdunger
- 2001 Alan C. Sartorelli
- 2000 Axel Ullrich
- 1999 J. Martin Brown
- 1998 Bruce A. Chabner
- 1997 Leroy Fong Liu
- 1996 Kurt W. Kohn
- 1995 Kenneth R. Harrap
- 1994 Mansukh C. Wani & Monroe E. Wall
- 1993 Victor Ling
- 1992 Susan Band Horwitz
- 1991 Michael B. Sporn
- 1990 Albert von Wartburg & Hartmann Stahelin
- 1989 V. Craig Jordan & Leonard J. Lerner
- 1988 Norbert Brock
- 1987 E. L. Robert Stokstad, James M. Smith, Jr., Doris B. Seeger, Thomas H. Jukes, Martin E. Hultquist, Alfred L. Franklin, Donna B. Cosulich & Margaret Belt
- 1986 Robert L. Noble & Irving S. Johnson
- 1985 Federico Arcamone
- 1984 Gertrude B. Elion & George H. Hitchings
- 1983 Barnett Rosenberg
- 1982 John A. Montgomery