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ESMO Breast Cancer Award

The ESMO Breast Cancer Award was established in 2019 to acknowledge distinguished experts who have devoted a major part of their career and made a special contribution to the discovery and development of education, research and clinical practice in the breast cancer field.

The ESMO Breast Cancer Award is presented at the annual ESMO Breast Cancer Congress and the Award recipient is invited to give a keynote lecture during the Opening Ceremony.

2023 – Sara A. Hurvitz, USA 

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Sara A. Hurvitz, Professor of Medicine at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA, Co-director of the Santa Monica-UCLA Outpatient Oncology Practice, Medical Director of the Clinical Research Unit of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, and Director of Breast Oncology, received the 2023 ESMO Breast Cancer Award for her remarkable contributions to breast cancer clinical and laboratory-based research.

Previous recipients of the ESMO Breast Cancer Award

  • Sibylle Loibl (2022)
  • Andrew Tutt (2021) 
  • Sherene Loi (2020)
  • Jonas Bergh (2019)

Nomination and selection process

The recipient is nominated by the ESMO Breast Cancer Congress Scientific Committee based on the following eligibility criteria.

The candidate must:

  • have made a special contribution to breast cancer research, education and clinical practice
  • be an individual (institutions and organisations are not eligible)
  • be an oncology professional, medical or clinical oncologist or researcher
  • be an ESMO member

The candidate must not:

Members of the Scientific Committee are eligible however they may not nominate themselves. More than one nomination is allowed.

All nominations are evaluated and a final awardee is selected by the Selection Committee: the Scientific Committee Co-Chairs of the ESMO Breast Cancer Congress, the ESMO Nomination Committee Chair and the ESMO President.

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