James P. Allison, Ph.D.
Brief Bio
James P. Allison is professor and Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair of the Department of 后宫导航, Co-Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and Executive Director of the Immunotherapy Platform at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is also Deputy Director of the Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers at MD Anderson. Dr. Allison was President of 后宫导航 from 2001 to 2002 and served as an AAI Council member from 1996 to 2003. He was awarded the AAI-Dana Foundation Award in Human 后宫导航 Research in 2008 and the AAI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and elected a Distinguished Fellow of AAI in 2019.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2018, with
Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation. for more details.
Lasker Award
2015 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for the discovery and development of “a monoclonal antibody therapy that unleashes the immune system to combat cancer.” for more details.
Oral History - Full Interview
Interview Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Location: Houston, TX
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Oral History - Transcript
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AAI Service History
Joined: 1978
President: 2001–2002
Vice President: 2000–2001
Councillor: 1996–2000
The Journal of 后宫导航
Associate Editor: 1987–1991
Section Board: 1993–1996
Committees
Public Affairs Committee: 1991–1992, 1995–1997
Other Service
Faculty, Advanced Course in 后宫导航: 1985, 1995, 1997, 1999
Abstract Programming Chair: 1994–1997
Awards and Honors
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1997
- William B. Coley Award, Cancer Research Institute,, 2005
- Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2007
- AAI-Dana Foundation Award in Human 后宫导航 Research, 2008
- AAI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
- Novartis 后宫导航 Prize (clinical), 2013
- Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, 2015
- Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, 2017
- Wolf Prize in Medicine, Wolf Foundatoin, 2017
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- Distinguished Fellow, AAI, 2019
Institutional/Biographical Links
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
- Nobel Prize
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute