
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.

Winners of 2023, 2024 and 2025

Dr. Martha Pitman, MIAC

Dr. Esperanza Teuzaba Torres, MIAC

Dr. Pamela Michelow, MIAC
Previous Winners from 1961 to present day
2025 |
Pamela Michelow, MD, MIAC, South Africa |
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2024 |
Esperanza Teuzaba Torres, MD, MIAC, Colombia |
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2024 |
Martha B. Pitman, MD, MIAC, U.S.A. |
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2022 |
Andrew S. Field, MB BS, FRCPA, FIAC, Australia |
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2021 |
Marianne Engels, MD, FIAC, Germany |
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2020 |
Ashish Chandra, MD, MIAC, UK |
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2019 |
Syed Z. Ali, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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2018 |
Ritu Nayar, MD, MIAC, U.S.A. |
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2017 |
John H. F. Smith, FRCPath, MIAC, United Kingdom |
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2016 |
David Kaminsky, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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2015 |
Lukas Bubendorf, MD, MIAC, Switzerland |
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2014 |
Philippe Vielh, MD, FIAC, France |
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2013 |
Fernando C. Schmitt, MD, FIAC, Portugal |
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2012 |
Gladwyn Leiman, MB, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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2011 |
Prabodh Kumar Gupta, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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2010 |
Kari J. Syrjänen, MD, FIAC, Finland |
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2009 |
Patricia Alonso de Ruiz, MD, FIAC, Mexico |
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2008 |
Hiroyuki Kuramoto, MD, FIAC, Japan |
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2007 |
Yener S. Erozan, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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2006 |
Svante R. Orell, MD, FIAC, Australia |
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2005 |
Marija Us-Krasovec, MD, FIAC, Slovenia |
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2004 |
Volker Schneider, MD, FIAC, Germany |
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2003 |
Marluce Bibbo, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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2002 |
Alfredo Dabancens-Opazo, MD, MIAC, Chile |
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2001 |
Jose Rivera-Pomar, MD, MIAC, Spain |
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2000 |
Alain Verhest, MD, FIAC, Belgium |
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1999 |
Diane Solomon, MD, MIAC, U.S.A. |
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1998 |
Harubumi Kato, MD, FIAC, Japan |
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1997 |
Manuel Hilgarth, MD, FIAC, Germany |
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1996 |
Dorothy L.Rosenthal, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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1995 |
Kiichiro Noda, MD, FIAC, Japan |
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1994 |
William W. Johnston, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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1993 |
Matias Jimenez Ayala, MD, FIAC, Spain |
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1992 |
Franco Rilke, MD, FIAC(em), Italy |
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1991 |
Masayoshi Takahashi, MD, FIAC, Japan |
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1990 |
Michael Drake, M.B., FIAC(hon), Australia |
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1989 |
Bernard Naylor, M.B., FIAC(em), U.S.A. |
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1988 |
G. Peter Vooijs, MD, FIAC, Netherlands |
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1987 |
Marcos Peluffo, MD, FIAC, Argentina |
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1986 |
Myron R. Melamed, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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1985 |
Junji Mizuno, MD, FIAC(hon), Japan |
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1985 |
Noboru Tanaka, MD, DDS, FIAC, Japan |
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1984 |
Claude Gompel, MD, FIAC, Belgium |
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1983 |
Shigemitsu Shida, MD,FIAC, Japan |
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1982 |
O.A.N. Husain, MD, FIAC, United Kingdom |
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1981 |
Jean A. de Brux, MD, FIAC(em), France |
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1980 |
Walter Sandritter, MD, FIAC, Germany |
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1979 |
John K. Frost, MD FIAC(em), U.S.A. |
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1978 |
Magnus L. Nasiell, MD, FIAC, Sweden |
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1977 |
Kazumasa Masubuchi, MD, FIAC(hon), Japan |
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1976 |
Alexander Meisels, MD, FRCPC, FIAC, Canada |
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1975 |
Peter Stoll, MD, FIAC, Germany |
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1974 |
Gustave Riotton, MD,FIAC(em), Switzerland |
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1973 |
Hans-Juergen Soost, MD, FIAC, Germany |
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1972 |
Torbjörn O. Caspersson, M.D, FIAC(hon), Sweden |
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1971 |
Stanley F. Patten, MD, PhD, FIAC, U.S.A |
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1970 |
Arthur I.Spriggs, MD, FIAC(em), United Kingdom |
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1969 |
Paul Lopes-Cardozo, MD, FIAC(em), Netherlands |
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1969 |
Josef Zajicek, MD, FIAC, Sweden |
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1968 |
Murray L. Baar, MD, Canada |
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1968 |
Ewart G. Bertram, PhD, Canada |
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1967 |
Emmerich von Haam, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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1966 |
Gunter F. Bahr, MD, FIAC(hon), U.S.A. |
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1965 |
James W. Reagan, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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1964 |
Hanns-Werner Boschann, MD, FIAC(hon), Germany |
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1964 |
Carlo Sirtori, MD, FIAC(hon), Italy |
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1963 |
Leopold G. Koss, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |
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1962 |
J.Paul Pundel, MD, FIAC(hon), Luxembourg |
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1961 |
George L. Wied, MD, FIAC, U.S.A. |