Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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Canada | McLaughlin Medal | | Important research of sustained excellence in any branch of medical sciences |
Canada | | | Vital world-class research to explore the causes of blindness and vision loss, as well as potential cures, treatments and preventions[4] |
Canada | | | Outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science[5] |
Canada | | | Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of medicine and medical science |
Canada | | | World leading scholar in the area of Global Health |
Canada | | | Eminent Canadian researchers who distinguish themselves in the fields of social, human, natural, or health sciences |
Canada | | | Individuals who have made significant contributions to a field of basic or clinical research in one of the Institute's principal areas of research |
Canada | | | Distinguished individual working in the field of biological or health sciences |
Canada | | | Researcher at the IRCM in recognition of the quality of [biomedical] research and the contribution to the growth and outreach of the Institute |
Canada | | | Researchers whose contributions have led to a significant advance in cancer research |
Canada | | | Cardiovascular medicine |
Chile | | Chilean Academy of Medicine etc. | Doctors who have excelled among their peers in the area of clinical or public health and, in addition, have had a prominent role in teaching, academic administration, or research |
Chile | | | Natural sciences |
United States / United Kingdom | | | Outstanding work in tropical health, especially relating to improvements in the health of rural or urban workers in the tropics[6] |
United States | AAMC Award for Excellence in Medical Education[7] (previously called Abraham Flexner Award) | | teams or individuals whose work have had a profound impact on medical education |
United States | | | Physicians or non-physician scientists who have contributed significantly to the field of medical science |
United States | | | Outstanding global contributions and commitment to preserve the power of antibiotics |
United States | | | National leadership in support of biomedical research |
United States | | | Physician or scientist, or group, whose work has led to significant advances in the fields of health care and scientific research with demonstrated translational benefits applied to improved patient care |
United States | | | Work in the field of vaccinology or a complementary field |
United States | | | Outstanding discovery, Contribution and achievement in the field of medicine and Human Physiology |
United States | | General Motors Cancer Research Foundation | Outstanding oncological research. No longer awarded |
United States | | | Lifetime achievement in immunology |
United States | | | First team to rapidly, accurately and economically sequence 100 whole human genomes to an unprecedented level of accuracy |
United States | | Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg etc. | Research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life |
United States | | Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation | Distinguished achievements in fields such as cancer, infectious disease, neuroscience, nutrition, and cardiovascular disease |
United States | | General Motors Cancer Research Foundation | Outstanding recent contribution related to the cause or prevention of cancer. No longer awarded |
United States | Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award | Cherokee Uniforms | Nurses and other non-physician, clinical, health care professionals who work directly with patients in the United States |
United States | | | Researchers and research teams working to apply new knowledge and techniques to patient care |
United States | | | Distinguished leadership as chair of a study committee or other such activity, showing commitment above and beyond the usual responsibilities of the position |
United States | | | US citizens who have made significant, progressive contributions to medicine |
United States | | | Individual who has made a significant, transformational contribution toward the improvement of human health |
United States | | | Clinical and laboratory research achievements in pediatrics |
United States | | | Significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career |
United States | | | Woman physician who has made the most outstanding contributions to the cause of women in the field of medicine |
United States | | | Outstanding work in the biomedical sciences |
United States | | | Contributions to the eradication, control and/or prevention of disease, etc. |
United States | | | Discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system |
United States | | | Outstanding and lasting contributions to the field of vital and health statistics at the national, state, or local level |
United States | | | Neurovirology |
United States | | | Important contributions to the medical sciences |
United States | | | Distinguished service to pediatrics as a whole |
United States | | | Scientists with an international reputation in transfusion medicine or cellular therapies whose original research resulted in an important contribution to the body of scientific knowledge |
United States | | | Individual who has made significant contributions to the field of diabetes epidemiology |
United States | | General Motors Cancer Research Foundation | Outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. No longer awarded |
United States | | | Significant work in advancing research concepts or clinical application in the fields of breast cancer research, screening or treatment |
United States | | Lasker Foundation | Living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine |
United States | | Lasker Foundation | Individual or organization whose public service has profoundly enlarged the possibilities for medical research and the health sciences and their impact on the health of the public |
United States | | Lasker Foundation | Outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease |
United States | | Lasker Foundation | Special achievement in medical science |
United States | | | Creative contributions to American life |
United States | | | Outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry |
United States | | | Outstanding achievement by a promising young scientist in biomedical research |
United States | | | Deserving nursing students enrolled in master's and doctoral programs |
United States | | | Investigator whose research brings us closer to the day when all babies will be born healthy |
United States | | Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation | Scientists who have made substantial recent contributions in the biomedical sciences |
United States | | National Foundation for Infectious Diseases | Outstanding contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases or public health |
United States | | | Medical directors with exceptional leadership and commitment to quality patient care |
United States | | | Research team that broke the world record for the oldest-ever mouse / Team that developed the most successful late-onset rejuvenation strategy |
United States | | | Scientific contributions toward a better understanding of the underlying causes, prevention, and treatments of Alzheimer's disease |
United States | | | Pioneering research that is highly innovative and has a potential to produce paradigm shifting results |
United States | | | Awarded to a physician-scientist whose body of research exhibits outstanding achievement in medical science as demonstrated by works of lasting significance |
United States | | | Encourage teams from all over the world to compete in an all-out effort to "hack the code" that regulates our health and lifespan |
United States | | | Cancer researchers who are making significant contributions to the understanding of cancer or are improving the treatment of the disease through basic or clinical research |
United States | | | Important advances to the field of pediatrics. No longer awarded |
United States | | | Achievements on emerging areas of research in Pick's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias |
United States | | | Promising residents in Obstetrics and gynaecology who exhibit unparalleled potential to become future leaders in the field of Perinatology |
United States | | | Significant contributions to the scientific understanding of the epidemiology and control of mental disorders |
United States | | | Distinguished service on behalf of American pharmacy |
United States | | | Excellence in clinical dermatology |
United States | | Pasarow Foundation | Distinguished accomplishment in areas of investigation that included neuropsychiatry, cardiovascular disease, and cancer research (to 2013) |
United States | | | Recent discoveries of particular originality and importance to basic medical research |
United States | | | Outstanding achievement in improving mental health |
United States | | Sarnoff Fellowship | Medical students interested in cardiovascular research |
United States | | | extraordinary and sustained contributions to improving cardiovascular health |
United States | | | Seminal research contributions in the search for the cause, prevention of, and cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
United States | | | Outstanding achievements advancing knowledge in a specific field and mentoring future generations of investigators in the life sciences |
United States | | | Researchers whose scientific achievements have expanded the understanding of cancer and whose vision has moved cancer research in new directions |
United States | | | Career achievements that have significantly advanced the research and development of preventions, treatments and cures for eye disease |
United States | | | Researchers, engineers and flight crew members in the field of extravehicular protection or activity in space |
United States | | Warren Alpert Foundation | Scientific achievements that have led to the prevention, cure or treatment of human diseases or disorders, and/or whose research constitutes a seminal scientific finding that holds great promise of ultimately changing our understanding of or ability to treat disease |
United States | | Wiley Foundation | Breakthrough research in pure or applied life science research that is distinguished by its excellence, originality and impact on our understanding of biological systems and processes |
United States | | | Substantial and far-reaching scientific contributions to human genetics carried out over a sustained period of scientific inquiry and productivity |
United States | | | Outstanding achievements in the fields of basic and tumor immunology and work that has deepened our understanding of the immune system's response to disease, including cancer |
United States | | | Contributions to health care research |
United States | | | Major contribution (a single accomplishment or series of accomplishments) that has significantly advanced care of patients with digestive diseases through clinical or translational research |
United States | | | Distinguished service and advancement of public health knowledge and practice | |
Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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Belgium | | | Person whose work has contributed prominently to the improvement of human health in the fields of metabolic disorders, infectious diseases, neurological diseases, cancer and cardiovascular disease |
Belgium | | Artois-Baillet Latour Foundation | Person whose work has contributed prominently to the improvement of human health in the fields of metabolic disorders, infectious diseases, neurological diseases, cancer and cardiovascular disease |
Belgium | | Linsman Foundation, AILg | Outstanding achievement in biomedical sciences, medicine, and neurosciences |
Finland | | Finnish Medical Society Duodecim | Prize in medicine |
France | | | Medical science, particularly neuroscience |
France | | Danone Institute International | Individuals or teams that have advanced the science of human nutrition |
France | | Fondation ARC | Translational and clinical research |
France | | | Person who succeeded in developing an effective treatment for the most common forms of heart disease |
France, United States | | | American and French scientists, 45 years or younger, for extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine |
Germany | | | Achievements in microbiology and immunology |
Germany | | Ernst Jung Foundation | Excellence in biomedical sciences |
Germany | | | Outstanding scientist, on the occasion of the annual Berlin Lecture on Molecular Medicine |
Germany | | | Outstanding achievements in cancer research |
Germany | | Paul Ehrlich Foundation | Medical research in Immunology, Cancer research, Haematology, Microbiology and experimental and clinical Chemotherapy |
Germany | | | Gold Robert Koch Medallion for accumulated excellence in biomedical research / Robert Koch Prize for a major discovery in biomedical science |
Hungary | | | Extraordinary achievements in the field of biomedicine |
Italy | | | Internationally recognized scientist or humanist whose studies and achievements have contributed to the protection of workers' health and the environment |
Italy | | | Scientists who have made outstanding contributions to furthering the aims of Bernardino Ramazzini in safeguarding public health |
Norway | | | Researcher who has distinguished himself through his scientific contributions to Norwegian cancer research |
Portugal | | | Contributions to overall vision research / Contributions to the alleviation of visual problems |
Portugal | BIAL Award in Biomedicine | BIAL Foundation | Seeks to recognise a work published in the broad biomedical field within the last ten years, the results of which are considered of exceptional quality and scientific relevance. |
Soviet Union | | | Worthwhile contributions to public health improvement, for their peculiar skills and expertise and for having proved abnegation and high moral qualities in their duties fulfillment. |
Sweden | | | Prominent Swedish and Nordic scientists in medicine |
Sweden | | | Outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine |
Sweden | | SalusAnsvar/Ulf Nilsonnes Foundation | Medical Research in cooperation with the insurance company Folksam |
Switzerland | | Max Cloëtta Foundation | Personalities who have distinguished themselves in biomedical research |
Switzerland | | | Researchers who have distinguished themselves in the field of biomedical research in one of the member states of the Council of Europe |
Switzerland | | | Outstanding research in basic ad clinical immunology | |
Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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United Kingdom / United States | | | Outstanding work in tropical health, especially relating to improvements in the health of rural or urban workers in the tropics[14] |
United Kingdom | | | To encourage members to present new research and developments at the annual conference[15] |
United Kingdom | | | Distinguished work in clinical medical research (not restricted to British subjects)[16] |
United Kingdom | | | Person deemed to have most distinguished himself in the science of physiology[17] |
United Kingdom | | Beit Memorial Fellowship | Post-doctoral or medical degree research in medicine |
United Kingdom | | | Work done in the preceding ten years in advancing sanitary science or promoting public health |
United Kingdom | | | Distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally |
United Kingdom | | | Highly important and valuable addition to Practical Therapeutics |
United Kingdom | | | Researchers in tropical medicine or international health who obtained their last relevant qualification between 15 and 20 years ago, allowing for career breaks, who demonstrate evidence of mentoring and professional development of junior investigators ... |
United Kingdom | | | Distinguished contributions to epidemiology |
United Kingdom | | | Distinguished work in epidemiological research |
United Kingdom | | | Lecture on subject connected with the contribution of fundamental science to the advancement of medicine |
United Kingdom | President's Prize | | 3 prizes, for distinguished research in Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Lipids, Metabolism and Vascular Risk, as well as Paediatrics and Child Health, respectively |
United Kingdom | George Macdonald Medal | | Outstanding contributions to tropical hygiene. |
United Kingdom | | | Original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences |
United Kingdom | | | Outstanding contributions to the advancement or clarification of paediatric knowledge |
United Kingdom | | | Contributions to surgical science |
United Kingdom | | | Individuals who have made a considerable contribution to ageing research, either through original discoveries or in the promotion of the subject of gerontology in its broadest aspect |
United Kingdom | | | Contribution to tropical medicine or hygiene |
United Kingdom | | | Outstanding contributions in the field of tropical medicine |
United Kingdom | | | Best clinical and scientific research presentations by a scientist or doctor |
United Kingdom | Moynihan Prize | Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland | Best abstract presented at the annual conference |
United Kingdom | | | Orthodontic technicians who have made an outstanding contribution to their profession and orthodontics. |
United Kingdom | | | Work in the field of tropical medicine and hygiene |
United Kingdom | | | Research undertaken as part of a doctoral thesis with particular consideration given to work that is likely to influence clinical practice |
United Kingdom | | | Prize lecture on contemporary science |
United Kingdom | | | Memorial lecture | |