FNIH Awards Ceremony
The 10th annual FNIH Awards Ceremony was held October 19, 2022, celebrating scientific excellence and partnership. The program highlighted the importance of innovation and collaboration to foster breakthrough biomedical discoveries. At the center of this signature event, the FNIH recognized the exceptional achievements of the 2022 recipients of the following honors:
- The Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, recognizing outstanding achievement by a promising young scientist in biomedical research;
- The Charles A. Sanders, M.D., Partnership Award, recognizing persons and/or organizations that have made significant contributions to the FNIH’s work to build, implement and nurture private-public partnerships in support of the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and
- The Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists, honoring outstanding contributions of early-career clinician-scientists whose work has the potential to or has led to innovations in patient care.
For more information, we invite you read more about these prizes and award, including past recipients, here: Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, the Charles A. Sanders, M.D., Partnership Award, and the FNIH Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists.
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2022 Lurie Prize AwardeesThe Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named Anne Brunet, Ph.D., and Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., co-winners of the 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences. |
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2022 Charles A. Sanders, MD, Partnership AwardeesThe Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD and Amgen co-winners of the 2022 Charles A. Sanders, MD, Partnership Award.
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2022 Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists AwardeesThe Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named Eliezer M. Van Allen, M.D., and Nikhil Wagle, M.D., co-winners of the 2022 Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists.
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2021 Award Winners
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Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D. David B. Arnold Professor of Science at Harvard University; a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Co-Founder of the life sciences company Vizgen |
Charles A. Sanders, M.D., Partnership Award Janssen and ACTIV Working Groups Janssen Research & Development, LLC, and the eight Co-Chairs of the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Working Groups. |
Piro Lito, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Member and Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists
Learn more about the recipients research and watch the the awarding of the prizes from the 2021 FNIH Awards Ceremony.
| 2014 Lurie Prize Recipient Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. |
2018 Lurie Prize Recipient James Chen, Ph.D. |
2020 Lurie Prize Recipient Aviv Regev, Ph.D. |