Recipients to be honored at 24th Annual Awards Dinner Gala in NYC
The Cancer Research Institute, Inc. (CRI), a nonprofit organization that supports and coordinates laboratory and clinical efforts to harness the disease-fighting power of the immune system to treat, control, and prevent cancer, announced today the winners of the 2010 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology.  CRI bestows this annual award upon one or more scientists whose discoveries in the fields of immunology or tumor immunology contribute to the advancement of immune system-based therapies for cancer.  This year, the Coley Award goes jointly to three outstanding scientists for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of the prognostic significance of infiltrating T lymphocytes in cancer patients.

· Haruo Ohtani, M.D., director of the Department of Pathology at Mito Medical Center, National Hospital Organization, in Ibaraki, Japan, receives the 2010 William...