
Nominations for the 2012 Advocacy Awards are now closed.
2011 Research!America
Advocacy Awards Dinner
March 15, 2011
Washington, DC
The annual Research!America Advocacy Awards program was established in 1996 by the board of directors to honor outstanding advocates for medical, health and scientific research. Recognized individuals and organizations are those whose leadership efforts have been notably effective in advancing our nation's commitment to research.Download a fact sheet about Research!America's 15th annual Advocacy Awards(PDF).
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We Thank Our Corporate Host
We Thank Our Principal Partner
We Thank Our Tribute Reception Sponsor
Co-Chair
Jack Watters, MD
Corporate Host
Pfizer, Inc
Co-Chair
Harry Johns
Alzheimer's Association
Our 2011 Advocacy Awards Honorary Chairs
2011 Advocacy Award Winners and Benefactors
Edwin C. Whitehead Award for Medical Research AdvocacyCo-Benefactors: Whitehead Charitable Foundation and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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Isadore Rosenfeld Award for Impact on Public OpinionBenefactor: Rosenfeld Heart Foundation
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Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National LeadershipBenefactors: Raymond R. Sackler, MD, and Beverly Sackler2011 Recipient:
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Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy AwardBenefactor: Hogan Lovells US LLP2011 Recipient:
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Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership AwardBenefactors: Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation2011 Recipient:
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Builders of Science AwardAnonymous Benefactor2011 Recipient:
inventor and physicist, was honored for creating private-sector models of innovation leading to such break-through medical devices as the portable insulin pump, portable dialysis machine and a revolutionary robotic arm for amputees. |
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2011 Annual Advocacy Award Sponsors
Corporate Sponsor
Principal Partner
Tribute Reception Sponsor
Presenting Partner
Program Partner
Jeanne and Sanford Robertson
Patron
Contributor
Sponsor
Mary Woolley
Friends
American Association for Cancer Research
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron
Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Council for American Medical Innovation
Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Award Benefactors
Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Rosenfeld Heart Foundation
Dr. Raymond R. and Beverly Sackler
Whitehead Charitable Foundation
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research