Winner!

Stephan Grupp treated Emily Whitehead, for whom the Emily Whitehead Foundation is named.  Enrolled in an experimental T-Cell Therapy clinical trial at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), she became the first child in the world to have her immune system trained to fight cancer. With the help of Grupp and others, not only did Emily survive, in just a few weeks she was declared cancer free — she’s now 11 and healthy.

Category: 2016 - Scientist of the Year

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2017

Anna Dhody

Dr. Elaine Zackai

2016

Danielle S Bassett

Daniel Himmelstein

2015

2014

Ted Daeschler

Katherine Kuchenbecker

2013

Jordan Miller

Dr. Pat McGovern

2012

R. Andrew Hicks, Ph.D

Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich