| Date | Name | Institution |
|---|
| 2025 | Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D. [2] | University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 2024 | Gary Koretzky, M.D., Ph.D. [3] | Weill Cornell Medicine |
| 2023 | Lewis Lanier, M.D., Ph.D. [4] | University of California, San Francisco |
| 2022 | Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. [5] | Harvard Medical School |
| 2020 | Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. [6] | University of Minnesota |
| 2019 | Pamela J. Fink, Ph.D. [7] | University of Washington |
| 2018 | Laurie H. Glimcher, M.D. [8] | Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School |
| 2017 | Richard J. Hodes [ Wikidata ], M.D. | NIA, NIH |
| 2016 | Olivera J. Finn, Ph.D. [9] | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| 2015 | Jonathan Sprent, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. [10] | Garvan Institute of Medical Research |
| 2014 | Emil R. Unanue, M.D. [11] | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |
| 2013 | Katherine L. Knight, [12] Ph.D. | Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago |
| 2012 | Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | HHMI, University of California, San Francisco |
| 2011 | James P. Allison, Ph.D. [13] | HHMI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| 2010 | Susan L. Swain, Ph.D. [14] | Trudeau Institute |
| 2009 | Steven J. Burakoff, M.D. | Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center |
| 2008 | Robert R. Rich, M.D. | University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham |
| 2007 | Ellen S. Vitetta, Ph.D. | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2006 | Hugh O. McDevitt, M.D., Ph.D. [15] | Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 2005 | Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. | NIAID, NIH |
| 2004 | Richard W. Dutton [ Wikidata ], Ph.D. | Trudeau Institute |
| 2003 | Philippa Marrack, Ph.D. [16] | HHMI, National Jewish Medical and Research Center |
| 2002 | William E. Paul, M.D. [17] | NIAID, NIH |
| 2001 | Charles A. Janeway, Jr., M.D. [18] | HHMI, Yale School of Medicine |
| 2000 | Max D. Cooper, M.D. | HHMI, University of Alabama, Birmingham |
| 1999 | Henry Metzger, M.D. | NIAMS, NIH |
| 1998 | Leonard A. Herzenberg, Ph.D. [19] | Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 1997 | Herman N. Eisen, M.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1996 | Frank W. Fitch [ Wikidata ], M.D., Ph.D. | University of Chicago |
| 1995 | Elvin A. Kabat, Ph.D. | Columbia University |
| 1994 | David W. Talmage, M.D. | University of Colorado |