to promote and reward seminal contributions to our understanding of cancer through basic cancer research.
- 2008 Arnold J. Levine
- 2007 Richard D. Kolodner
- 2006 Robert A. Weinberg
- 2005 Elizabeth H. Blackburn
- 2004 Tony Hunter
- 2003 Charles J. Sherr
- 2002 Robert N. Eisenman