The Abbott Award honors an individual in the international scientific or medical community, who has made an outstanding contribution in the field of basic or clinical oncology. Nominations for this award can be sent to a member of the ISOBM Executive Committee. Nominated individuals do not have to be members of ISOBM. The awardee is invited to present a key-note lecture at an ISOBM Conference. A manuscript based on this presentation is published in the Society’s Journal “Tumor Biology”.
The ISOBM Abbott awardees are:
| Year | Name | City, Country |
| 2018 | Yosef Yarden | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2017 | Vivian Barak | Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2016 | John Minna | Dallas, USA |
| 2015 | Herbert A. Fritsche | Houston, USA |
| 2014 | Ken Yamaguchi | Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2012 | Michael J. Duffy | Dublin, Ireland |
| 2011 | Petra Stieber | Munich, Germany |
| 2010 | Rolf Lamerz | Munich, Germany |
| 2009 | Torgny Stigbrand | Umea, Sweden |
| 2008 | Kazuhisa Taketa | Ibara, Japan |
| 2007 | Stewart Sell | New York, USA |
| 2006 | Ronald Levy | Stanford, USA |
| 2005 | Kohzoh Imai | Sapporo, Japan |
| 2004 | Timothy J. O’Brian | Little Rock, USA |
| 2003 | Richard Begent | London, UK |
| 2003 | Kerry Chester | London, UK |
| 2002 | Ulf-Hakan Stenman | Helsinki, Finland |
| 2002 | Hans Lilja | Lund, Sweden |
| 2002 | Elephterios Diamandis | Toronto, Canada |
| 2001 | Robert C. Bast, Jr. | Houston, USA |
| 2001 | Kenneth O. Lloyd | New York, USA |
| 2000 | Dairo Neri | Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2000 | Luciano Zardi | Geneva, Italy |
| 1999 | John Shively | City of Hope, USA |
| 1999 | John Thompson | Freiburg, Germany |
| 1999 | Hiroshi Nakazato | Osaka, Japan |
| 1999 | Nicole Beauchemin | Montreal, Canada |
| 1998 | Sten Hammerstrom | Umea, Sweden |
| 1998 | Shinzo Nishi | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1997 | Markku Seppala | Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997 | Yuri Tatarinov | Moscow, Russia |
| 1997 | Hans Bohn | Marburg, Germany |
| 1996 | Tsan Ming Chu | Buffalo, USA |
| 1995 | Erkki Ruoslahti | La Jolla, USA |
| 1994 | David Goldenberg | Newark, USA |
| 1994 | Jean-Pierre Mach | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1993 | William H. Fishman | San Diego, USA |
| 1992 | Phil Gold | Montreal, Canada |
| 1991 | Gary Abelev | Moscow, Russia |
| 1990 | Sabine von Kleist | Freiburg, Germany |
Young investigator merit awards
Young investigator merit awards are granted at the annual conferences to young scientists with excellent contributions to the scientific program.