In 1972 he received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award from the Lasker Foundation "for his outstanding contribution in application of the concept of combination chemotherapy for lymphoma and acute adult leukemia."
Other awards included the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award (1978); NIH Distinguished Alumni Award (1990); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999); Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research (2003); and AARC Lifetime Achievement Award (2004).

2013 Fellow of the AACR Academy
2004 AACR Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 Elected Member, Institute of Medicine
1990 First NIH Distinguished Alumni Award
1989 Armand Hammer Award
1985 Hamao Umezawa Award, International Society of Chemotherapy, Infection and Cancer
1983 Charles F. Kettering Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
1980 Elected fellow of the American College of Physicians
1972 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
1971 President, AACR
1968 President, American Society of Clinical Oncology
In 1972 he received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award from the Lasker Foundation "for his outstanding contribution in application of the concept of combination chemotherapy for lymphoma and acute adult leukemia." Other awards included the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award (1978); NIH Distinguished Alumni Award (1990); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999); Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research (2003); and AARC Lifetime Achievement Award (2004).
2013 Fellow of the AACR Academy
2004 AACR Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 Elected Member, Institute of Medicine
1990 First NIH Distinguished Alumni Award
1989 Armand Hammer Award
1985 Hamao Umezawa Award, International Society of Chemotherapy, Infection and Cancer
1983 Charles F. Kettering Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
1980 Elected fellow of the American College of Physicians
1972 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
1971 President, AACR
1968 President, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Emil Frei