The William L. McGuire Memorial Lectureship

Nominations sought for 2025 McGuire Lecture Award

Nominations are now being accepted for the William L. McGuire Award and Lectureship. The William L. McGuire Award and Lectureship is given annually at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium^® in recognition of an investigator whose extraordinary and sustained achievements in translational and/or clinical research have made an impact on our understanding of the pathogenesis and/or outcome of breast cancer patients.

The lecturer is selected by the SABCS McGuire Award Committee through a nomination process. The selection is based on the following criteria:

• Lecturers are respected figures with an international reputation.
• They have made significant contributions to the field of breast cancer research.
• They are known as skilled presenters.
• They present a topic of high current interest related to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer or to the study of its underlying mechanisms

The deadline for submitting nominations is May 30, 2025. Nominations must be submitted electronically at 2025 SABCS William L. McGuire Award Nominations Survey on Survey Monkey. Nominators must provide a nomination letter describing why the candidate is being nominated along with a curriculum vitae. The awarded lecturer will be announced in the fall.

Previous winners:

Note: Past awardees are not eligible to win again. Past winners of the William L. McGuire Award include:

2024: Laura J. van 't Veer, PhD, professor and Angela and Shu Kai Chan Endowed Chair in Cancer Research in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the director of applied genomics and leader of the Breast Oncology Program for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

• Read the press release announcing Van 't Veer's award
• Watch an SABCS Snippet with a short interview Van 't Veer

2023: Jack Cuzick, PhD, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Cancer Prevention Unit at the Centre for Prevention, Detection and Diagnosis at Queen Mary University of London. Watch Dr. Cuzick's lecture.

2022: Jeffrey M. Rosen, PhD, distinguished service professor of molecular and cellular biology and the coleader of the breast cancer program at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine. Watch Dr. Rosen's lecture.

2021: Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine. Watch Dr. Olopade's lecture.

2020: Mary-Claire King, PhD, American Cancer Society Professor of Genome Sciences and Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Also:
Joseph Sparano, MD
Michael Baum, MD
Charles A. Coltman, Jr., MD
Nancy E. Davidson, MD
Mitchell Dowsett, PhD
Bernard Fisher, MD
Joe Gray, PhD
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, MD
Kathryn Bloch Horwitz, PhD
James N. Ingle, MD
Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc
Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, PhD
Amy S. Langer, MBA
Marc Lippman, MD
Monica Morrow, MD, FACS
Larry Norton, MD
Bert O’Malley, MD
C. Kent Osborne, MD
Martine Piccart, MD, PhD
Trevor J. Powles, MD PhD
Richard J. Santen, MD
Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD
George W. Sledge, Jr., MD
Umberto Veronesi, MD
Eric P. Winer, MD
Norman Wolmark, MD
Sir Richard Peto, FRS
Ian E. Smith, MD, FRCP, FRCPE
Jack Cuzick, PhD FRS CBE
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About the Lectureship

Dr. William L. McGuire, along with Dr. Charles A. Coltman, founded the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium^® in 1977. The William L. McGuire Memorial Lectureship was established in 1992 to commemorate the significant contributions of Dr. McGuire to oncology medicine. His research played a major role in introducing estrogen receptor assays on breast tumor tissue as a guide to treatment decisions for women with breast cancer. Breast cancer patients everywhere now receive these tests.

The lecturer is selected by the SABCS^® McGuire Award Committee from persons through a nomination process. The selection is based on the following criteria:

• Lecturers are respected figures with an internationaln reputation

• They have made significant contributions to the field of breast cancer research.

• They are known as skilled presenters.

• They present a topic of high current interest related to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer or to the study of its underlying mechanisms.