Steven Rosenberg

Rosenberg is the kind of figure I find genuinely heroic, not in a flashy way but in a stubborn, decades-deep way. A Harvard-trained surgeon who bet his career on the then-radical idea that the body's own immune system could be turned against cancer, he kept grinding long before immunotherapy became fashionable. The wall of honors, from the Coley Award to the Massry and Keio prizes, only confirms what I admire most: relentless patience in service of saving lives. I respect researchers who chase a hard truth for forty years more than almost anyone, and he sits squarely in that company.

Name (English)

Steven Rosenberg

Name (Japanese)

スティーヴン・ローゼンバーグ

Reading

すてぃーゔん・ろーぜんばーぐ

Born

August 2, 1940 (age 85)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

oncologist / university teacher / surgeon / immunologist

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2011 William B. Coley Award
• 2014 Massry Prize
• 2012 Keio Medical Science Prize
• 1988 Leopold Griffuel Prize
• 2016 Novartis Prize for Clinical Immunology
• 2015 Fellow of the AACR Academy
• 2023 Clarivate Citation Laureates
• 2018 Albany Medical Center Prize

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0

Tags

• New York
• oncologist
• university teacher
• surgeon

Last updated

2026-06-02

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