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AAPS Award Recipients: 1987–Present

AAPS Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award
1989
Leslie Z. Benet, Ph.D.
1991 Dale E. Wurster, Ph.D.
1993 Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
1995 George Zografi, Ph.D.
1997 Ronald T. Borchardt, Ph.D.
1999 Joseph R. Robinson, Ph.D.
2001 Wolfgang Sadée, Ph.D.
2003 Yuichi Sugiyama, Ph.D.
2005 Gordon L. Amidon, Ph.D.
2007 Nicholas S. Bodor, Ph.D.
2009 Michael J. Pikal, Ph.D.
2011 Valentino J. Stella, Ph.D.


AAPS Dale E. Wurster Research Award
1990
George Zografi, Ph.D.
1992 Gerhard Levy, Pharm.D.
1994 William I. Higuchi, Ph.D.
1996 Joseph R. Robinson, Ph.D.
1998 Sung Wan Kim, Ph.D.
2000 Leslie Z. Benet, Ph.D.
2002 Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D., D.Eng.
2004 David J. W. Grant, Ph.D.
2006 Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.
2008 Larry Augsburger, Ph.D.
2010 Theodore W. Randolph, Ph.D.
2012 Brad Anderson, Ph.D. 


AAPS Distinguished Service Award
1990
Klaus G. Florey, Ph.D.
1992 Karl A. DeSante, Ph.D.
1994 Wolfgang Sadée, Ph.D.
1996 Leslie Z. Benet, Ph.D.
1998 Vincent H.L. Lee, Ph.D.
2000 Vinod P. Shah, Ph.D.
2002 Jerome P. Skelly, Ph.D.
2004 Richard F. Bergstrom, Ph.D.
2006 Mario L. Rocci, Jr., Ph.D.
2008 Sathyanarayana (Satyam) M. Upadrashta, Ph.D., RAC
2010 Ho-Leung Fung, Ph.D.
2012 Larry L. Augsburger, Ph.D. 


Research Achievement Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality
1988
John C. Craig, Ph.D.
1990 James T. Stewart, Ph.D.
1992 Kamal K. Midha, Ph.D.
1994 William D. Mason, Ph.D.
1996 H. Thomas Karnes, Ph.D.
1998 Harry G. Brittain, Ph.D.
2000 Peter Kissinger, Ph.D.
2003 Bogdan Matuszewski, Ph.D.
2004 Susan M. Lunte, Ph.D.
2006 Mohammed Jemal, Ph.D.
2008 Craig Lunte, Ph.D.
2010 Michael G. Bartlett, Ph.D.


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Biotechnology
1991 Wolfgang Sadée, Ph.D.
1993 Ronald T. Borchardt, Ph.D.
1997 Mark C. Manning, Ph.D.
1999 Charles R. Middaugh, Ph.D.
2001 Francis C. Szoka, Ph.D.
2003 Victor C. Yang, Ph.D.
2005 Richard D. DiMarchi, Ph.D.
2007 John F. Carpenter, Ph.D.
2009 David Scott, Ph.D.


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Research (formerly Clinical Sciences)
1991
Jerome J. Schentag, Pharm.D.
1995 Daniel L. Azarnoff, M.D.
1997 Roger Jelliffe, Ph.D.
1998 Milap C. Nahata, MS, Pharm.D.
2004 Hartmut Derendorf, Ph.D.
2005 David J. Greenblatt, M.D.
2007 Nick Holford, M.D., M.B., Ch.B.
2009 Mark J. Ratain, MD
2011 Jeffrey Barrett, Ph.D., FCP 


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Economic, Marketing and Management Sciences
1990
Mickey C. Smith, Ph.D.
1992 Charles D. Hepler, Ph.D.
1994 Andy S. Stergachis, Ph.D.
1996 J. Lyle Bootman, Ph.D.
1998 Jeffrey A. Kotzan, Ph.D.
2000 Dev S. Pathak, DBA


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Drug Design and Discovery (formerly Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry)
1988 Nicholas S. Bodor, Ph.D.
1990 Philip S. Portoghese, Ph.D.
1992 Daniel H. Rich, Ph.D.
1994 Ronald T. Borchardt, Ph.D.
1996 Ralph F. Hirschmann, Ph.D.
1998 Kenner C. Rice, Ph.D.
2000 Peter W. Schiller, Ph.D.
2002 Alexandros Makriyannis, Ph.D.
2004 Rao S. Rapaka, Ph.D.
2006 F. Ivy Carroll, Ph.D.
2008 Lemont B. Kier, Ph.D.
2010 Peter A. Crooks, Ph.D.
2012 Aleem Gangjee, Ph.D. 


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Formulation Design and Development
2010
Abu T. M. Serajuddin, Ph.D
2012 Mansoor A. Khan, Ph.D. 


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Manufacturing Science & Engineering
2009 Dale Eric Wurster, Ph.D.
2011 Ahmed Adel Sakr, Ph.D. 


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery
1988 William I. Higuchi, Ph.D.
1989 Armando J. Aguiar, Ph.D.
1991 Joseph R. Robinson, Ph.D.
1993 Felix Theeuwes, D.Sc.
1995 Sung Wan Kim, Ph.D.
1997 Valentino J. Stella, Ph.D.
1999 Tsuneji Nagai, Ph.D.
2001 Kinam Park, Ph.D.
2003 Vincent H.L. Lee, Ph.D.
2005 Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D.
2007 Mitsuru Hashida, Ph.D.


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism
1988 Ho-Leung Fung, Ph.D.
1990 Edward R. Garrett, Ph.D.
1992 John G. Wagner, Ph.D.
1994 Malcolm Rowland, Ph.D.
1996 Milo Gibaldi, Ph.D.
1998 William J. Jusko, Ph.D.
2000 Grant R. Wilkinson, Ph.D.
2002 K. Sandy Pang, Ph.D.
2004 Jessie L-S. Au, Ph.D.
2006 Kathleen Giacomini, Ph.D.
2008 Ken-ichi Inui, Ph.D.
2010 Meindert Danhof, Ph.D.
2012 Jashvant D. Unadkat, Ph.D. 


AAPS Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical Technologies
1988 Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.
1989 Ralph F. Shangraw, Ph.D.
1991 Stanley L. Hem, Ph.D.
1993 Hans Leuenberger, Ph.D.
1995 Eugene L. Parrott, Ph.D.
1997 J. Keith Guillory, Ph.D.
1999 Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D., D.Eng.
2001 Michael J. Pikal, Ph.D.
2003 Larry L. Augsburger, Ph.D.
2005 James W. McGinity, Ph.D.
2007 Steven L. Nail, Ph.D.


AAPS Regulatory Sciences Achievement Award
2004 Jerome P. Skelly, Ph.D.
2006 Ajaz S. Hussain, Ph.D.
2008 Moheb M. Nasr, Ph.D.
2010 Sathyanarayana (Satyam) Upadrashta, Ph.D., RAC
2012 Vijay Tammara, Ph.D. 


AAPS Lipid-based Drug Delivery Outstanding Research Award
2005 Anette Müllertz, Ph.D.
2006 Russell J. Mumper, Ph.D.
2007 Kishor M. Wasan, Ph.D.
2008 Hayat Onyuksel, Ph.D.
2009 Christopher J.H. Porter, Ph.D.
2011 Ben Boyd, Ph.D.


AAPS Excellence in Ligand Binding Assays
2004 Jason Pennucci
         Steven Swanson, Ph.D.
         Shalini Gupta, Ph.D.

2005 Lin Yang
         Stephanie Sidobre, Ph.D.
         L. Kelly
         C. Cooper
         M. Khan

2006 F. Nabbie
         S. Chang
         G. Schieven
         R. Zhang
         J. Kelsey
         R. Weiner 
         Y. Barrett

2007 Joan Kelsey

2008 Daniel J. Baltrukonis
         Thomas Kawabata
         Deborah Finco-Kent

2009 Susan Jacques
         Shalini Gupta
         Steve Swanson
         Arunan Kaliyaperumal

2010 Ray Yin 
          Yli Vallejo
          Jing Pan
          Thomas Small
          Dujie Qin
          Dave Chen

2011 Murli Krishna
          Alexander Kozhich
          Suk Kwok
          Zhen Lou
          Paul Rhyne

 2012 Jay Wustner
          MaryLou Dula
          Shawn Fernando
          Katie Bendas
          Yun Liu
          Danielle Horgan
          Dan Hanrahan
          Megan Kuc
          Dongzhao Chen
          Michael Deitrich
          Estie VanVolkenburgh
          Reannon Holland
          Wolfgang Ebel
          Philip Sass
          Nicholas Niclaides 


AAPS Meritorious Manuscript Award
1990
Bradley D. Anderson, Ph.D.
          Prakash V. Raykar, Ph.D.
          Man-Cheong Fung, Ph.D.

1991 Ronald T. Borchardt, Ph.D.
          Kevin R. Smith

1992 Noboru Yata, Ph.D.
         Toshihiko Toyoda, Ph.D.
         Teruo Murakami, Ph.D.
         Akio Nishiura, Ph.D.
         Yutaka Higashi, Ph.D.

1994 Philip S. Burton, Ph.D.
         Robert A. Conradi, Ph.D.
         Allen R. Hilgers
         Norman F.H. Ho, Ph.D.

1995 P.K. Tsai, Ph.D.
         David B. Volkin, Ph.D.
         Jonathan M. Dabora
         Karen C. Thompson, Ph.D.
         Mark W. Bruner
         Jacqueline O. Gress
         Bozena Matuszewska, Ph.D.
         Martina Keogan
         Joseph V. Bondi, Ph.D.
         C. Russell Middaugh, Ph.D.

1996 Akira Tsuji, Ph.D.
         Tetsuya Terasaki, Ph.D.
         Ikumi Tamai, Ph.D.
         Hitomi Takanaga, Ph.D.

1997 William M. Pardridge, M.D.
          Young Sook Kang, Ph.D.
          Jody L. Buciak
          Jing Yang

1998 Manoj M. Nerurkar, Ph.D. 
         Philip S. Burton, Ph.D. 
         Ronald T. Borchardt, Ph.D.

1999 Zheng Yang, Ph.D.
         Richard C. Brundage, Ph.D., Pharm.D.
         Rashmi H. Barbhaiya, Ph.D.
         Ronald J. Sawchuk, Ph.D.

2000 Ahmed El-Tahtawy
         Thomas Tozer, Ph.D.
         Ferrin Harrison
         Larry Lesko, Ph.D.
         Roger Williams, M.D.

2001 Neville M. Concessio
         Michiel M. Van Oort, Ph.D.
         Michael R. Knowles 
         Anthony J. Hickey, Ph.D.

2002 Cynthia Brimer Cline
         James T. Dalton, Ph.D.
         Zixon Zhu
         John Schuetz, Ph.D.
         Kazuto Yasuda 
         Elio Vanin
         Mary V. Relling, Pharm.D.
         Yi Lu
         Erin G. Schuetz

2003 Wiliam M. Pardridge, M.D. 
          Ruben J. Boado 
          Ningya Shi

2004 Duxin Sun 
         Hans Lennernäs, Ph.D. 
         Lynda S. Welage, Pharm D., FCCP 
         Jeffery L. Barnett 
         Christopher P. Landowski 
         David Foster 
         David Fleisher, Ph.D. 
         Kyung-Dall Lee, Ph.D. 
         Gordon L. Amidon, Ph.D.

2005 Per Artusson, Ph.D. 
         Saeho Chong, Ph.D. 
         Rick Morrison, Ph.D. 
         Lauri Söderberg 
         Jan Taipalensuu 
         Staffan Tavelin

2006 Jennifer Smith 
         Edward Wood 
         Michael Dornish

2007 Goldie Kaul 
         Mansoor M. Amiji, Ph.D.

2008 William J. Jusko 
         Zhenling Yao 
         Debra C. DuBois 
         Richard R. Almon


AAPS Pharmaceutical Research Meritorious Manuscript Award (formerly AAPS Meritorious Manuscript Award)
2009
Gary M. Pollack, Ph.D. 
         John C. Kalvass

2010 Tetsuya Terasaki 
         Junichi Kamiie 
         Sumio Ohtsuki 
         Ryo Iwase 
         Ken Ohmine 
         Yuki Katsukura 
         Kazunari Yanai 
         Yumi Sekine 
         Yasuo Uchida 
         Shingo Ito

2011 Par Matsson
         Jenny M. Pedersen
         Ulf Norinder
         Christel A.S. Bergstrom
         Per Artursson

2012 David E. Alonzo, Ph.D.
           Geoff G.Z. Zhang, Ph.D.
           Deliang Zhou, Ph.D.
           Yi Gao, Ph.D.
           Lynne S. Taylor, Ph.D.

           
AAPS Outstanding Educator Award
2000
Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.
2002 George Zografi, Ph.D.
2004 Larry L. Augsburger, Ph.D.
2006 Joseph B. Schwartz, Ph.D.
2008 Adel Sakr, Ph.D.
2010 Raj Suryanarayanan (Sury), Ph.D.
2012 John L. Neumeyer, Ph.D.


AAPS Outstanding Manuscript Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality
1997 
Perry A. Hailey, Ph.D. 
         Phil Doherty 
         Paul Tapsell 
         Timothy Oliver 
         Paul K. Aldridge

1998 Keith K. Burton 
         Jeremy R. Everett 
         Michael J. Newman 
         Frank S. Pullen 
         Don S. Richards 
         Alistair G. Swanson

1999 Shewan M. Aziz, R.Ph., Ph.D. 
         Mustafa Yatin, Ph.D. 
         David R Worthen, R.Ph., MS, DRW 
         David W. Lipke, Ph.D. 
         Peter A. Crooks, Ph.D.

2000 Sean X. Peng, Ph.D. 
         Babul Borah, Ph.D. 
         Roy L.M. Dobson, Ph.D. 
         Y. Diana Liu, Ph.D. 
         Stanislaw Pikul, Ph.D.

2001 Jacob Bongers, Ph.D. 
         John J. Cummings 
         Mary Beth Ebert 
         M. Marcia Federici, Ph.D. 
         Linden Gledhill, Ph.D. 
         Dipti Gulati, Ph.D. 
         George M. Hilliard, Ph.D. 
         Brian H. Jones 
         Kwan R. Lee, Ph.D. 
         Jacek Mozdzanowski, Ph.D. 
         Michael Naimoli 
         Sudhir Burman, Ph.D.

2002 Tim Schenk 
         H. Irth 
         György Marko-Varga, Ph.D. 
         L-E. Edholm 
         U.R. Tjaden 
         Jan van der Greef

2003 Dannette Hansen-Doolittle, Ph.D. 
         Dennis O. Scott, Ph.D. 
         Kenneth W. Otis 
         Susan M. Lunte, Ph.D.

2004 Ute Gerhard, Ph.D. 
         Steven Thomas 
         Russell Mortishire-Smith

2005 Eva Lenz, Ph.D. 
         Jonathan D. Bright, Ph.D. 
         Ian D. Wilson, Ph.D. 
         Andrew Hughes, Ph.D. 
         Henrik Lindberg, Ph.D. 
         Andrew J. Locton, Ph.D.

2006 Peter L.D. Wildfong 
         Nicole A. Morley 
         Michael D. Moore 
         Kenneth R. Morris, Ph.D.

2007 Bryan H. Huynh 
         Barbara A. Fogarty 
         Pradyof Nandi 
         Susan M. Lunte, Ph.D.

2008 Yuerong Hu 
         Håkan Wikström 
         Stephen R. Byrn 
         Lynne S. Taylor

2009 Kyung H. Gahm 
         Helming Tan 
         Jodi Liu 
         Wesley Barnhart 
         John Eschelbach 
         Steve Notari 
         Samuel Thomas 
         David Semin 
         Janet Cheetham

2012 Raj Suryanarayanan, Ph.D.
           Kapildev K. Arora, Ph.D.
           Nitin G. Tayade, Ph.D.
        

AAPS Outstanding Manuscript Award in PharmSciTech
(formerly Outstanding Manuscript in Pharmaceutical Development and Technology)
1998 Srinivas S. Duggirala, Ph.D. 
         Rahul C. Mehta, Ph.D. 
         Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.

2000 Wei-Qin (Tony)Tong 
         Graham Whitsell

2002 Janusz W. Kostanski, Ph.D. 
         Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.

2004 Chandra Vemavarapu, Ph.D. 
         Matthew J. Mollan, Ph.D. 
         Thomas E. Needham, Ph.D.

2006 Susan D'Souza 
         Jabar Faraj, Ph.D. 
         Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.

2008 Ambikanandan Misra (Lead Author) 
         Tushar K. Vyas 
         A.K. Babbar 
         Rakesh K. Sharma 
         Shashi Singh

2010 Svetlana Lyapustina 
         Steven Novick 
         David Christopher 
         Monisha Dey 
         Michael Golden 
         Stefan Leiner 
         Bruce Wyka 
         Hans-Joachim Delzeit 
         Chris Novack 
         Gregory Larner


AAPS Journal Manuscript Award (formerly AAPS PharmSci Manuscript Award)
2003
Michael H. Qvist 
         Ulla Hoeck 
         Bo Kreilgaard, Ph.D. 
         Flemming Madsen, Ph.D. 
         Lars Hovgaard, Ph.D. 
         Sven Frokjaer, Ph.D.

2005 James D. Andya 
         Chung C. Hsu, Ph.D. 
         Steven J. Shire, Ph.D.

2007 Siddhesh D. Patil, Ph.D. 
         David G. Rhodes, Ph.D. 
         Diane J. Burgess, Ph.D.

2009 Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D.

2011 Ayman El-Sayed
         Shiroh Futaki
         Hideyoshi Harashima 


AAPS Outstanding Manuscript in Modeling and Simulation Award
2008
Kaori Ito 
         Matt M Hutmacher 
         Jing Liu 
         Ruolun Qiu 
         Bill Frame 
         Raymond Miller

2009 Dhaval K. Shah 
         Beom Soo Shin 
         Jean Veith 
         Karoly Toth 
         Ralph J. Bernacki 
         Joseph P. Balthasar

2010 Eric Snoeck 
         Karin Jorga 
         Pascal Chanu 
         Mark Lavielle 
         Philippe Jacqmin 
         E Niclas Jonsson 
         Timothy Goggin 
         Joseph Grippo 
         N. L'ntshotshole "Shasha" Jumbe 
         Nicolas Frey

2012 Paulo Paixao 
         Jose A.G. Morais
         Luis F. Gouveia
 

AAPS PharmSci & AAPS PharmSciTech Outstanding Use of Technology Award
2003
Keith D. Jensen 
         Pavla Kopecková 
         John H.B. Bridge 
         Jindrich Kopecek


AAPS New Investigator Grant in Pharmaceutics and the Pharmaceutical Technologies
1987
Ronald A. Siegel, Sc.D.
1988 Elizabeth Topp, Ph.D.
1989 Ashim K. Mitra, Ph.D.
1990 Anthony J. Hickey, Ph.D.
1991 Timothy S. Wiedmann, Ph.D.
1992 Yongyut Rojanasakul, Ph.D.
1993 Patrick J. Sinko, Ph.D.
1994 Jane Pei-Fan Bai, Ph.D.
1995 Paul M. Bummer, Ph.D.
1996 Susanna Wu-Pong, Ph.D.
1997 Uday B. Kompella, Ph.D.
1998 James E. Polli, Ph.D.
1999 Jeffrey Hughes, Ph.D.
2000 Peter W. Swaan, Ph.D.
2001 Kishor M. Wasan, Ph.D.
2002 Tonglei Li, Ph.D.
2003 Lynne S. Taylor, Ph.D.
2004 Abdul W. Basit, Ph.D.
2005 Christopher J. Roberts
2006 Karen Hapgood, Ph.D.
2007 Hugh D. Smyth, Ph.D.
2008 Changquan (Calvin) Sun, Ph.D.
2009 Yoon Yeo, Ph.D.
2010 Jerry Y. Y. Heng, Ph.D. 
2011 Kun Cheng, Ph.D.
2012 Seungpyo Hong, Ph.D.


AAPS New Investigator Grant in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism
1992
Kathleen M. Boje, Ph.D.
1994 An-Ng (Tony) Kong, Ph.D.
1996 Deanna L. Kroetz, Ph.D.
1998 David R. Taft, Ph.D.
2000 Bernd Meibohm, Ph.D.
2002 Lane J. Brunner, Ph.D.
2005 Carolyn A. Fairbanks
2007 Donald E. Mager, Ph.D.
2009 Swati V. Nagar
2011 Patrick Thomas Ronaldson, Ph.D.


AAPS New Investigator Grant in Oral Lipids-based Drug Delivery Systems
1999
Christopher J. H. Porter, Ph.D.
2001 Ijeoma F. Uchegbu, Ph.D.
2002 Xiaochen Gu 


AAPS Postdoctoral Fellow
1999 Sheri L. Shamblin, Ph.D.
2000 Wolfgang Jacobsen, Ph.D.
2002 Yurong Lai, Ph.D.
2003 Ramapuram Jayachandra Babu
2004 Siddhesh D. Patil, Ph.D.
2005 Vanessa M. D'Souza
2006 Mo Yun
2007 Carolyn Cummins, Ph.D. 
         Heidi M. Mansour, Ph.D., R.Ph.
2008 Udaya Toti, Ph.D.
2009 Chandrasekar Durairaj, Ph.D. 
         Christina Kriegel, Ph.D.
2010 Bernard Van Eerdenbrugh, Ph.D. 
2011 Limin Shi, Ph.D. 
2012 Courtney Sloan, Ph.D.


AAPS Drug Delivery Technology Award
2008
John T. Santini, Jr., Ph.D.(Lead researcher) 
         Elizabeth Proos 
         James Prescott, Ph.D.


AAPS Dr. Rainer Hoffman Product Through Science Award
2008
Gary W. Cleary, Ph.D.
2009 Eugene R. Cooper, Ph.D.
2010 Professor Hans E. Junginger, Ph.D.
2011 Francis C. Szoka, Ph.D. 


Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Graduate Student Award
2008 
Annalisa Mercuri 
          Caroline Goddeeris

 2009 Mrs. Harisun Yaakob

 2010 Hazem Ali 
          Perrine Pivette 
2011 Anne Tungelund Larsen
2012 Yan Yan Yeap


Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award in PT
2008 
Sabiruddin Mirza, Ph.D. 
          Mentor: Juoko Yliruusi, Ph.D.
2011  Zhe Wang
          Mentor: Paul C. Ho 
2012  Qi (Tony) Zhou


AAPS David J.W. Grant Research Award in Physical Pharmacy
2009
Stephen R. Byrn, Ph.D.
2011 Lian Yu, Ph.D.

Innovation in Nanotechnology
2011
Fu Chen
2012 Arun Kumar Udadhyay


Innovation Biotechnology Awards
2010
Todd Hager 
         Hongwei Zhang 
         Ajit Sharma 
         Annie De Groot
2011 Kaila Bennett
         Matthew R. Durk
         Diwakar Shukla
         Suzanna Taterewics
         Chenguang Zhou
2012 Mark Spengler
         Payal Agarwal
         Sathy V. Balu-lyer
         Shraddha Thakkar
         Steven Jay
          

Community Service Award
2010
Patrick P. DeLuca, Ph.D.
2012 Joseph W. Polli, Ph.D.


Quality by Design and Product Performance Graduate Student Award 
2011 
Xiaoming Xu