The Don Listwin Award (Early Detection Impact Award) for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Early Detection recognizes a sustained contribution to, or singular achievement in, the cancer early detection field.
The 2025 Award goes to: Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
About the Award
The Early Detection Impact Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Early Detection recognizes a sustained contribution to, or singular achievement in, the cancer early detection field.
Eligibility and Selection Process
- Nominations are open to any individual or team of individuals who have contributed to the field of cancer early detection through an outstanding sustained commitment or a singular achievement.
- All nominations are kept for three years.
- Decisions are made by an awards committee consisting of the scientific organizers of the annual Early Detection of Cancer conference and an additional representative from each organizing institution.
- The main criterion for judging nominations is impact on the cancer early detection field, whether scientific, translational, advocacy, or other.
2025 Winner: Ruth Etzioni
Ruth Etzioni is a Professor in the Biostatistics Program, Public Health Sciences Division, at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, where she holds the Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown Endowed Chair.
She has been involved in cancer early detection research since the early days of PSA, when she became fascinated with the many ways of screening for cancer using blood-based biomarkers. The driving motivation of her research program is to develop the evidence needed to inform decisions about how best to screen for different cancers.
Her work has focused primarily on prostate cancer, with additional contributions in breast and ovarian cancer. She is currently supported by an NCI Outstanding Investigator Award to develop models and methods for novel cancer diagnostics, with a primary focus on multi-cancer early detection tests.
Make a nomination
Submit a nomination for the Early Detection Impact Award at earlydetectionresearch.com/award.
Nominate nowAbout Renata Barnes
Renata Barnes is a science communications specialist at the Canary Foundation, dedicated to sharing breakthrough research in early cancer detection.