Nomination Type: Self, peer, or committee of peers
Nomination Package:
- Curriculum Vitae/résumé
- Biography highlighting candidate’s impact on public health through the pharmaceutical sciences
- Nominator’s statement
- 1-3 letters of endorsement (optional)
Qualifications for Nomination:
- Must be an AAPS member at time of nomination
- Must be no more than 8 years from beginning a full-time, paid, early professional career in academia, industry, and/or regulatory (excludes doctoral, post-doctoral, intern or residency positions)
Enterprise-level AAPS award recipients will not be considered for additional enterprise-level awards in consecutive years.
Selection Committee: The AAPS Awards Committee
Selection Process:
The Awards Committee will consider:
- Candidates’ breakthrough innovation or discovery, with emphasis on the long-term potential of that breakthrough
- Importance of breakthrough
- Innovation of discovery
- Long-term potential of impact / breakthrough
- Urgency of execution
How quickly the innovation benefited patients The committee will vote to select a recipient.
Past Recipients
2024: Bowen Li, Ph.D.
2023: Raman Bahal, Ph.D.
2022: Guizhi Zhu
2021: Qi Tony Zhou, Ph.D., FAAPS
2019: Juliane Nguyen, Ph.D., Pharm.D.
2018: James Moon, Ph.D.