This award recognizes especially meritorious research contributions by an individual in a specific area of clinical chemistry. The clinical chemists who have received this award have achieved national and international status for their pioneering efforts in an area of research considered fundamental to the science and have been considered among the world’s foremost experts in that specific discipline.
Congratulations to This Year's Winner!
Rossa W.K. Chiu, M.B.B.S., PhD, FHKCPath, FHKAM, FRCPA
Rossa Chiu is qualified as a medical specialist in Genetic Pathology and Chemical Pathology in both Hong Kong and Australia. Prof Chiu has developed methods on cell-free DNA analysis in maternal blood for the prenatal assessment of Down syndrome and other fetal genetic conditions, which led to worldwide changes in clinical practice. She has been investigating the detection of cancer-derived DNA in human plasma for early detection of cancers. Her research has culminated into over 190 research articles, several international research awards and about 280 granted patents. Prof Chiu was among the Top 20 Translational Researchers in Nature Biotechnology’s list of 2018 and 2020. She was a consultant to Sequenom, Illumina and Grail. She has served on the Awards Committee of AACC, was an Associate Editor of Clinical Chemistry, and a Senior Editor of the 7th edition of Tietz Textbook of Laboratory Medicine. Prof Chiu is currently a Director of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis.
Previous Winners
2021 - Qing H. Meng, PhD
2020 - Ann M. Gronowski, PhD
2019 - Khosrow Adeli, PhD
2018 - Allan Jaffe, MD
2017 - Jerry Katzmann, PhD
2016 - Martin Fleisher, PhD
2015 - Daniel W. Chan, PhD
2014 - Mario Plebani, MD
2013 - Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD
2012 - Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, MD
2011 - Peter C. Nowell
2010 - Robin A. Felder, PhD
2009 - Fred S. Apple, PhD
2008 - Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD
2007 - Michael J. Bennett, PhD
2006 - Hugo Katus, MD
2005 - David B. Sacks, MD
2004 - Carl Wittwer, PhD
2003 - Ishwarlal Jialal, PhD
2002 - Jack H. Ladenson, PhD
2001 - James L. Wittliff, MD, PhD
2000 - Alfred H. Free, PhD
1999 - Eleftherios P. Diamandis, MD, PhD
1998 - Larry Kricka, PhD
1997 - Edwin F. Ullman, PhD
1996 - James C. Sternberg, PhD
1995 - John Albers, PhD
1994 - Ronald J. Elin, PhD
1993 - Kary B. Mullis
1992 - Walter Dandliker
1991 - Arthur Karmen, MD
1990 - Larry D. Bowers, PhD
1989 - Leland Charles Clark Jr, PhD
1989 - John W. Severinghaus, MD
1989 - Richard W. Stow, PhD
1988 - Herbert K. Naito, PhD
1987 - David E. Bruns, MD
1986 - Helen K. Berry
1985 - Peter Jatlow, MD
1984 - Robert B. McComb, PhD
1983 - Basil T. Doumas, PhD
1982 - Charles E. Pippenger, PhD
1981 - J. Stanton King, PhD
1980 - Charles D. Scott, PhD
1979 - Robert Schaffer, PhD
1978 - Harry L. Pardue, PhD
1977 - Theodore Peters, PhD
1976 - Nathan O. Kaplan, PhD
1975 - Rosalyn S. Yalow, PhD
1974 - Lena Armstrong Lewis, PhD
1973 - George N. Bowers, MD