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.

2025 Awardees:

Senior Investigator: Peter Yurchenco,  Rutgers –  RW Johnson Medical School
Junior Investigator: Brian Aguado,  University of California San Diego
Iozzo Award: Yao Yao,  University of South Florida
Founders Award: Neha Dinesh,  McGill University
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Sylvie Ricard-Blum, University of Lyon
Iozzo Trainee Awardees: Lexi Rindone, Johns Hopkins University, (PostDoc); Iram Fatima Siddiqui, McGill University, (Student)    

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