Award-Winning Scholars

Isaac Witz, in the 1960s, made the pioneering demonstration that constituents of the immune system find their way to the tumor microenvironment (TME) of solid tumors and affect their behavior.

The take-home message of his 56 years of studying tumor biology is that the flow of information, signaling, and cross-talk between cancer cells and the entire spectrum of non-cancerous TME components are critical factors for understanding tumor growth, progression, and spreading.

Isaac’s seminal studies are among those that impacted the development of cancer therapeutics targeting the interacting molecules in the TME. Future opportunities for additional live-saving therapies from the TME field lay ahead.

Awards and Scholarships:

• 2023 - The Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research
• 2023 - Career Achievement Award in Cancer Research - The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research,  The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
• 2022 - Lifetime Achievement Award - Israeli Society for Cancer Research
• 2022 - Honorary Member - The European Academy of Tumor Immunology
• 2019 - 14^th Annual Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Lecture Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• 2018 - Doctor Honoris Causa - University of Vienna, Austria
• 2014 - The Otto Herz Memorial Lecturer in Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University
• 2008 - Life Time Achievement Award for Scientific Contributions, Institute of Human Virology,  University of Maryland School of Medicine
• 2003 - The Jacqueline Seroussi Award for Cancer Research (with Judah Folkman)
• 1996 - Elected Member of the World Academy of Art and Science
• 1990 - Fogarty Scholar in Residence, NIH, Bethesda, Md., USA
• 1980 - 2003 - The David Furman Chair of Cancer Immunobiology
• 1974 - Eleanor Roosevelt International Cancer Scholarship
• 1961 - Anne Frank Fellowship to enable research in Villejuif, France
• 1960 - Gurevitch Award, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel