Past Merit Awardees

ASMB is proud to recognize the outstanding contributions of our members at the biennial meetings. Below you will find our previous year's awardees.

2023 Awardees:

Senior Investigator, Hans Peter Bachinger, Shriners Hospital for Children and Oregon Health Science University
Junior Investigator, Evangelia Bellas, Temple University
Iozzo Award, Valerie Horsley, Yale University
Founders Award, Simon Schworer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
ISMB Distinguished Investigator, Taina Pihlajaniemi,  University of Oulu
Iozzo Trainee Awardees: Neha Dinesh, McGill University (Student),  Amanda Daulagala, Medical University of South Carolina (Post-Doc)

2021 Awardees:

Senior Investigator, William Parks, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Junior Investigator, Ashley Brown, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Iozzo Award, Jessica Wagenseil, Washington University in St. Louis
Founders Award, Heena Kumra, McGill University
ISMB Distinguished Investigator, Robert Mecham, Washington University School of Medicine
Iozzo Trainee Awardees: Sarah Lipp, Purdue University (Student) and Nandaraj Taye, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai at New York (Post-Doc) 

2020 Awardees:

Iozzo Trainee Awards:
(During this pandemic year - no in-person meeting was held. The following were awarded virtually.)
Student Category: Claire Gianakas, Duke University; Samantha Schwager, Vanderbilt University
Post Doc Category: Yael Efraim, University of California San Francisco, and Aastha Kapoor, Thomas Jefferson University

2018 Awardees:

Senior Investigator: Jean Schwartzbauer, Princeton University
Junior Investigator: Alexandra Naba, University of Illinois at Chicago
Iozzo Award: Rachel Lennon, University of Manchester
Founders Award: Vincent Fiore, The Rockefeller University
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Billy Hudson, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

2016 Awardees:

Iozzo Award: Thomas Barker, University of Virginia
Senior Investigator: Renato Iozzo, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Junior Investigator: Vincent Tagliabracci,University of Texas, Southwestern, Medical Center
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Karl Tryggvason, Karolinska Institute/Duke University-National University of Singapore

2014 Awardees:

Iozzo Award: Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego, California
Senior Investigator: Vince Hascall, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Junior Investigator: Sean E. Gill, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, University Frieburg, Germany

 

2012 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award: Billy Hudson, Vanderbilt University
Junior Investigator Award: Thomas Barker, Georgia Institute of Technology


2010 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award:  Benoit de Crombrugghe, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Junior Investigator Award: Pyong Woo Park, Children's Hospital at Harvard, MA
 

2008 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award: Robert Mecham, Washington University in St. Louis
Junior Investigator Award: Hiromi Yanagisawa, University of Texas Southwestern
One Time Founder's Award: Paul Bornstein, University of Washington (retired)

2006 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award: Bjorn Olsen, Harvard University
Junior Investigator Award: David Calderwood, Yale University

2004 Awardees: 

Senior Investigator Award: Ken Yamada, NIDCR, NIH
Junior Investigator Award: Dwayne Stupack, Scripps Institute