The Maurice Goldblatt Cytology Award


The GOLDBLATT AWARD was inaugurated in 1960 by the late Maurice Goldblatt, the founder and Honorary Chairman of the Cancer Research Foundation in Chicago.

The jury of the Goldblatt Awards consists of The Chair of the Awards Committee and the previous laureates. The Awards have been given yearly since 1961.

There have been 53 recipients of the Goldblatt Award from 21 countries. Awardees receive a gold medal and an honorarium. The Maurice Goldblatt Awards 2023, 2024 and 2025 will be presented at the 22nd International Congress of Cytology in Florence (Italy) in May 2025.

The Awards are given to members for outstanding contributions to IAC activities as well as contributions to field of cytopathology such as teaching, research, publication and support of projects in low middle income countries.


Maurice Goldblatt was born into a Jewish family in southeastern Poland. In 1905 the family immigrated to Chicago, USA.  Together with his brother Nathan, he founded Goldblatt’s, a local chain of discount stores. The business was successful during the Great Depression and had expanded to 15 stores by the end of World War II.

It was 1944 when Nathan Goldblatt died of cancer, Maurice retired from his business and handed it over to his younger brothers Louis and Joel in 1946.

A year later in 1947, Maurice Goldblattt had already established the Cancer Research Foundation in Chicago, which was the beginning of his strong support for the development of cancer research.  

Black and white image of Maurice Goldblatt: White middle-aged man with short hear, wering a dark suit, white shirt and dark tie.

Members
Goldblatt 2023

Dr. Martha Pitman, MIAC

U.S.A.
Members
Goldblatt 2024

Dr. Esperanza Teuzaba Torres, MIAC

Colombia
Members
Goldblatt 2025

Dr. Pamela Michelow, MIAC

South Africa

Previous Winners from 1961 to present day

2025

Pamela Michelow, MD, MIAC, South Africa

2024

Esperanza Teuzaba Torres, MD, MIAC, Colombia

2024

Martha B. Pitman, MD, MIAC, U.S.A.

2022

Andrew S. Field, MB BS, FRCPA, FIAC, Australia

2021

Marianne Engels, MD, FIAC, Germany

2020

Ashish Chandra, MD, MIAC, UK

2019

Syed Z. Ali, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

2018

Ritu Nayar, MD, MIAC, U.S.A.

2017

John H. F. Smith, FRCPath, MIAC, United Kingdom

2016

David Kaminsky, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

2015

Lukas Bubendorf, MD, MIAC, Switzerland

2014

Philippe Vielh, MD, FIAC, France

2013

Fernando C. Schmitt, MD, FIAC, Portugal

2012

Gladwyn Leiman, MB, FIAC, U.S.A.

2011

Prabodh Kumar Gupta, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

2010

Kari J. Syrjänen, MD, FIAC, Finland

2009

Patricia Alonso de Ruiz, MD, FIAC, Mexico

2008

Hiroyuki Kuramoto, MD, FIAC, Japan

2007

Yener S. Erozan, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

2006

Svante R. Orell, MD, FIAC, Australia

2005

Marija Us-Krasovec, MD, FIAC, Slovenia

2004

Volker Schneider, MD, FIAC, Germany

2003

Marluce Bibbo, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

2002

Alfredo Dabancens-Opazo, MD, MIAC, Chile

2001

Jose Rivera-Pomar, MD, MIAC, Spain

2000

Alain Verhest, MD, FIAC, Belgium

1999

Diane Solomon, MD, MIAC, U.S.A.

1998

Harubumi Kato, MD, FIAC, Japan

1997

Manuel Hilgarth, MD, FIAC, Germany

1996

Dorothy L.Rosenthal, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

1995

Kiichiro Noda, MD, FIAC, Japan

1994

William W. Johnston, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

1993

Matias Jimenez Ayala, MD, FIAC, Spain

1992

Franco Rilke, MD, FIAC(em), Italy

1991

Masayoshi Takahashi, MD, FIAC, Japan

1990

Michael Drake, M.B., FIAC(hon), Australia

1989

Bernard Naylor, M.B., FIAC(em), U.S.A.

1988

G. Peter Vooijs, MD, FIAC, Netherlands

1987

Marcos Peluffo, MD, FIAC, Argentina

1986

Myron R. Melamed, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

1985

Junji Mizuno, MD, FIAC(hon), Japan

1985

Noboru Tanaka, MD, DDS, FIAC, Japan

1984

Claude Gompel, MD, FIAC, Belgium

1983

Shigemitsu Shida, MD,FIAC, Japan

1982

O.A.N. Husain, MD, FIAC, United Kingdom

1981

Jean A. de Brux, MD, FIAC(em), France

1980

Walter Sandritter, MD, FIAC, Germany

1979

John K. Frost, MD FIAC(em), U.S.A.

1978

Magnus L. Nasiell, MD, FIAC, Sweden

1977

Kazumasa Masubuchi, MD, FIAC(hon), Japan

1976

Alexander Meisels, MD, FRCPC, FIAC, Canada

1975

Peter Stoll, MD, FIAC, Germany

1974

Gustave Riotton, MD,FIAC(em), Switzerland

1973

Hans-Juergen Soost, MD, FIAC, Germany

1972

Torbjörn O. Caspersson, M.D, FIAC(hon), Sweden

1971

Stanley F. Patten, MD, PhD, FIAC, U.S.A

1970

Arthur I.Spriggs, MD, FIAC(em), United Kingdom

1969

Paul Lopes-Cardozo, MD, FIAC(em), Netherlands

1969

Josef Zajicek, MD, FIAC, Sweden

1968

Murray L. Baar, MD, Canada

1968

Ewart G. Bertram, PhD, Canada

1967

Emmerich von Haam, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

1966

Gunter F. Bahr, MD, FIAC(hon), U.S.A.

1965

James W. Reagan, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

1964

Hanns-Werner Boschann, MD, FIAC(hon), Germany

1964

Carlo Sirtori, MD, FIAC(hon), Italy

1963

Leopold G. Koss, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.

1962

J.Paul Pundel, MD, FIAC(hon), Luxembourg

1961

George L. Wied, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.