The Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award is the premier honor conferred by the Biomedical Engineering Society and recognizes biomedical engineering achievement. The award started as the BMES Distinguished Lecture Award in 1991 and was sponsored by the Whitaker Foundation. The award was renamed in tribute to Robert Pritzker starting in 2007.
Recipients 1991 - Thomas Harris - Vanderbilt University 1992 - Pierre Galletti - Brown University 1993 - J. David Hellums - Rice University 1994 - Robert S. Langer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995 - Rakesh K. Jain - Harvard Medical School 1996 - Marcos Intaglietta - University of California 1997 - Sheldon Weinbaum - The City College of New York 1998 - Jen-Shih Lee - University of Virginia 1999 - John H. Linehan - Whitaker Foundation 2000 - Murray B. Sachs - Johns Hopkins University 2001 - Yoram Rudy - Case Western Reserve University 2002 - Gerald Pollak - University of Washington 2003 - Douglas A. Lauffenburger - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004 - W. Mark Saltzman- Yale University 2005 - Peter G. Katona - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006 - Daniel Hammer - University of Pennsylvania 2007 - Antonios Mikos - Rice University 2008 - Buddy Ratner - University of Washington 2009 - Donald E. Ingber - Harvard University 2010 - Rebecca Richards-Kortum - Rice University 2011 - Michael Shuler - Cornell University 2012 - Ajit P. Yoganathan, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology 2013 - Ashutosh Chilkoti, PhD - Duke University 2014 - James J. Collins, PhD - Boston University 2015 - Martin Yarmush, MD, PhD - Rutgers University 2016 - Nicholas A. Peppas, ScD - University of Texas at Austin 2017 - Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD - Columbia University 2018 - Rashid Bashir, PhD - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2019 - Christopher Chen, MD, PhD - Boston University 2020 - Paul Hunter Peckham, PhD - Case Western Reserve University 2021 - Nancy Allbritton, MD, PhD - University of Washington 2022 - Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD - University of Connecticut 2023 - Tejal A. Desai, PhD - Brown University 2024 - Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, PhD - UCI Samueli School of Engineering 2025 - Linda Griffith, PhD - MIT Department of Biological Engineering 2026 - William Wagner, PhD - University of Pittsburgh
See also List of engineering awards
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