Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award

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