The Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award is the premier honor conferred by the

Biomedical Engineering Society BMES (the Biomedical Engineering Society) is the professional society for students, faculty, researchers and industry working in the broad area of biomedical engineering. BMES is the leading biomedical engineering society in the United States and w ...

and recognizes biomedical engineering achievement. The award started as the BMES Distinguished Lecture Award in 1991 and was sponsored by the

Whitaker Foundation The Whitaker Foundation was based in Arlington, Virginia and was an organization that primarily supported biomedical engineering education and research, but also supported other forms of medical research. It was founded and funded by U. A. Whitaker ...

. The award was renamed in tribute to

Robert Pritzker Robert Alan Pritzker (June 30, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Pritzker family. Biography Pritzker was born to a American Jews, Jewish family, the Pritzker family,Robert S. Langer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology * 1995 - Rakesh K. Jain - Harvard Medical School * 1996 - Marcos Intaglietta - University of California * 1997 -

Sheldon Weinbaum Sheldon Weinbaum: (born July 26, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American biomedical engineer and biofluid mechanician. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at The City College ...

- 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 Antonios Georgios Mikos (born 1960) is a Greek-American biomedical engineer who is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. He specialises in biomaterials, drug delivery, and tis ...

- Rice University * 2008 - Buddy Ratner - University of Washington * 2009 - Donald E. Ingber - Harvard University * 2010 -

Rebecca Richards-Kortum Rebecca Richards-Kortum (born April 14, 1964) is an American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. She is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and she is t ...

- 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 Martin (Maish) L. Yarmush (born October 8, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an academic, American scientist, physician, and engineer known for his work in biotechnology and bioengineering. His faculty career began in 1984 at MIT in the Department of ...

, MD, PhD - Rutgers University * 2016 - Nicholas A. Peppas, ScD - University of Texas at Austin * 2017 -

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic ( sr-cyr, Гордана Вуњак Новаковић) FRSC is a Serbian American biomedical engineer and university professor. She is a University Professor at Columbia University, as well as the Mikati Foundation Prof ...

, PhD - Columbia University * 2018 -

Rashid Bashir Rashid Bashir is Dean of The Grainger College of Engineering, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was the Executive Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Of ...

, PhD - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * 2019 -

Christopher Chen Christopher Chen is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Singapore who in 1986 was the first to successfully freeze a human egg which subsequently led to egg banks being started around the world. In 1998, he successfully produced Singapore's firs ...

, 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

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