The International Society for Aerosols in Medicine
AWARDS
With the following awards ISAM fosters and encourages promising new researchers, and recognizes eminent, long-standing career achievements within these areas of interest through a generous awards program. All of these are awarded to recognise and celebrate excellence in aerosol science. The following award list provides a guidance on eligibility criteria for the awards and the nomination required.
Career Achievement Award
The Career Achievement Award is presented to a senior investigator whose body of work demonstrates a lifetime of outstanding achievement in aerosol science. The nomination should clearly describe the role that the individual's work has played in advancing the field of aerosols in medicine.
Thomas T. Mercer Award
The Thomas T. Mercer Award, jointly sponsored by ISAM and AAAR, is based on the achievement of excellence in the field of medicinal aerosols and inhalable materials. No other qualifications are required of the recipient. Any member of ISAM or AAAR may make nominations. Membership in either ISAM or AAAR is not required of the nominee.
Young Investigator Award
The Young Investigator Award is given to a scientist who will not be older than 40 years of age in 2019 and who has made significant contributions to the field of aerosols in medicine. The nomination should summarize the contributions of the candidate to the field. The nominee must be a member of ISAM.
Ted Martonen Student Research Award
The Ted Martonen Student Research Award is given to an investigator who is currently a full-time student enrolled in an MD, PhD, or master’s program and has demonstrated outstanding independent research in the field of aerosols.
Submission of Nominations
For the Career Achievement, Thomas T. Mercer and Young Investigator Awards, the nominator must send a letter of nomination, at least two supporting letters, and a current curriculum vita for the nominee. Previous nominations not awarded will require re-nomination. The nominee cannot be a member of any of the awards committees.
For the Student Research Award, only a single letter of nomination from the nominee's academic supervisor is required. This letter of nomination should be accompanied by an abstract summary of the nominee's research, using the form that is required for submission of abstracts to the ISAM Congress. If the nominee submits the same abstract for consideration of inclusion in the Congress program, they should check the box on the abstract form that indicates that it has been nominated for the Student Research Award.
Chronology of Awardees
Career Achievement Award
1988 Paul E. Morrow, Ph.D., USA
1991 Willi Stahlhofen, Ph.D., Germany
1993 Heinrich Matthys, M.D., Germany
1995 Jurai Ferin, Ph.D., USA
1997 Yoshinubo Sato, M.D., Ph.D., Japan
2001 Joachim Heyder, Ph.D., Germany
2003 Peter Gehr, Ph.D., Switzerland
2005 Michael T. Newhouse, M.D., Canada
2007 Gerald Smaldone, M.D., Ph.D., USA
2009 Myrna Dolovich, Hamilton, Ontario
2011 Bruce Montgomery, M.D.,USA
2013 Günter Oberdörster, D.V.M., Ph.D., USA
2015 Wolfgang Kreyling, Ph.D., Germany
2017 Warren H. Finlay, Ph.D., Canada
2019 Andy Clark, Ph.D., USA
Thomas T. Mercer Award (jointly sponsored with AAAR)
1995 Paul E. Morrow, Ph.D., USA
1996 Joseph D. Brain, Sc.D., USA
1997 Roger O. McClellan, D.V.M., USA
1998 Werner Stöber, Germany
1999 Willi Stahlhofen, Ph.D., Germany
2000 Abdellaziz Ben-Jebria, Ph.D. USA
2001 C. Arden Pope III, Ph.D., USA
2002 Ron Wolff, Ph.D., USA
2003 Günter Oberdörster, D.V.M., Ph.D., USA
2004 Igor Gonda, Ph.D., Australia
2005 Andrew R. Clark, Ph.D., USA
2006 Myrna B. Dolovich, P. Eng., Canada
2007 Steve Newman, Ph.D., UK
2008 Warren Finlay, Ph.D., Canada
2009 Dieter Koehler, M.D. Germany
2010 Wolfgang G. Kreyling, Ph.D. Germany
2011 Yung Sung Cheng, Ph.D. USA
2012 Peter Gehr, Ph.D., Switzerland
2013 Mark Utell, M.D., USA
2014 Mark Hoover, Ph.D., USA
2015 Omar Usmani, MB ChB, Ph.D., UK
2016 Joe Mauderly, D.V.M., USA
2017 Anthony J. Hickey, Ph.D., USA
2018 Chong S. Kim, Ph.D., USAWilli Stahlhofen Award
2015 William Bennett Ph.D., USA
2017 Rui Carlos Sá, Ph.D., USA
2019 Peter LeWitt, M.D., MMSc, USAYoung Investigator Award
1993 Andrew R. Clark, Ph.D., USA
1995 Kevin E. Driscoll, Ph.D., USA
1997 Magnus Svartengren, M.D., Sweden
1999 Patrice Diot, M.D., France
2001 Warren Finlay, Ph.D., Canada
2003 James S. Brown, Ph.D., USA
2005 Sunalene Devadason, Ph.D., Australia
2007 Tim Corcoran, Ph.D., USA
2009 Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Ph.D. Bern, Switzerland
2011 Laurent Vecellio, Ph.D., France
2013 Andrew Martin, Ph.D., USA
2015 Josue Sznitman Ph.D., Israel
2017 Qi (Tony) Zhou, Ph.D., USA
2019 Laleh Golshahi, Ph.D., USAJuraj Ferin Award
1999 Werner Hofmann, Ph.D., Austria
2001 Helger Hauck, Ph.D., Austria
2003 Gerald Smaldone, M.D., Ph.D., USA
2005 Peter Gehr, Ph.D., Switzerland
2007 Wolfgang G. Kreyling, Ph.D., Germany
2009 Gunter Oberdörster, Ph.D., USA
2011 Beth Laube, Ph.D., USA
2013 Patrice Diot, M.D., France
2015 Theresa Sweeney, Ph.D., USA
2017 Gerhard Scheuch, Ph.D., Germany
2019 Bill Bennett, Ph.D., USAWinfried Moller Research Award
2019 Benedict Huck, Germany
Ted Martonen Student Research Award
2001 Julie Suman, USA
2003 Michelle Dawson, USA
2005 Fabian Blank, Switzerland
2007 Antoine Minne, Belgium
2009 Shayna McGill, Hawaii
2011 Mohanad Sahib, Malaysia
2013 Tammy Shen, USA
2015 Anna Maria Ciciliani, Germany
2017 Yu-Wei Lin, Australia
2019 Hana Barosova, SwitzerlandBest Oral Presentation
2007 Michael Bur, Germany
2009 Jennifer Burchell, Perth, Western Australia
2011 Katharina Schwarz, Germany
2013 Christian Ruge, Germany
2015 Kleanthis Fytianos, Greece
2017 Yu-Wei Lin, Australia
2019 Zainal Farzal, M.D., USA