The Pezcoller Foundation –
EACR Translational Cancer Researcher Award
Since 2012, the Pezcoller Foundation and the European Association for Cancer Research have collaborated in the organization of the biennial Pezcoller Foundation – EACR Cancer Researcher Award.
From 2020, the Award has been renamed the Pezcoller Foundation – EACR Translational Cancer Researcher Award, and was made annually from 2021 onwards. It celebrates academic excellence and achievements in fundamental cancer research that have the potential for future clinic development.
THE WINNER
- will receive a €10,000 honorarium from the Pezcoller Foundation
- will give the prestigious Pezcoller Foundation – EACR Translational Cancer Researcher Award Lecture at the EACR Congress (registration, accommodation and travel costs covered by the EACR)
- will be invited to give a lecture in Trento (Italy).
2026 WINNER – Samra Turajlic
PAST WINNERS
2025 - IDO AMIT
Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
2024 - ELISA ORICCHIO
Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research and EPFL, Switzerland
2023 - NICOLA ACETO
ETH Zurigo, Svizzera
2022 - NICHOLAS TURNER
Molecular Oncology Team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London UK
2021 - ANDREA ABLASSER
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2020 - NITZAN ROSENFELD
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK-CI)
2018 - JAN KORBEL
Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
2016 - YARDENA SAMUELS
Ekard Institute, MICC, Israel
2014 - EDUARD BATLLE
IRB Barcelona
2012 - ERIC SO
King’s College London, UK