Merit Awards

AACC celebrates outstanding contributions to medicine through its annual awards program, which culminates with formal recognition at the AACC Annual Scientific Meeting.

Most awards go to those in the laboratory field, but some, such as the Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award, are often given to people from other disciplines.

Nominations for the 2021 AACC Awards Program will open on December 1, 2020 and will close on February 28, 2021.  Award winners will be announced in the spring of 2021.

The 2019 AACC and AACC Academy award winners pictured with AACC President Carmen L. Wiley, PhD

2020 Award Winners

Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award
Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Nader Rifai, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital

Outstanding Contributions Through Service to the Profession of Clinical Chemistry
Martin Fleisher, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Outstanding Contributions to Education in Clinical Chemistry
Roger Bertholf, PhD
Houston Methodist Hospital

Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator
Dina Greene, PhD
Washington Kaiser Permanente