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Journal of ControlledRelease 45 (1997) 115-120

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Newsletter Awards Presentation 1996 C o n t r o l l e d R e l e a s e S o c i e t y K y o t o S y m p o s i u m

The Controlled Release Society was proud to present the following awards at the banquet at Takaragaike Prince Hotel in Kyoto, Japan, on July 9, 1996, during the 1996 CRS Kyoto Symposium.

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CRS Distinguished Service Award CRS Founders Award CRS Young Investigator Awards Jorge Heller Journal of Controlled Release Award CRS-Cygnus Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work in Drug Delivery CRS-Dow Corning Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award CRS-3M Pharmaceuticals Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award The Nagai Foundation Tokyo Graduate Student Award CRS-Capsugel Special Session Awards CRS Outstanding Pharmaceutical Paper Award

Dr. Theodore J. Roseman of Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Round Lake, Illinois, USA, was honoured with the CRS Distinguished Service Award. The Controlled Release Society presents this award to a CRS member who has demonstrated exceptional commitment and service to CRS. Dr. Roseman was presented with a silver struck medallion, a $3,000 honorarium, and a grant-in-aid to attend the annual symposium. This year's Founders Award was presented to Dr. Yasuhisa Sakurai of Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan. This award recognizes the

winner's outstanding international contributions to the science and technology of controlled release. Dr. Sakurai was presented with a silver struck medallion, a $3,000 honorarium, and a grant-in-aid to attend the annual symposium. Dr. Joke Bouwstra and Dr. W. Mark Saltzlnan each received a CRS Young Investigator Award. This award is presented by the Society for exceptional research by younger CRS members Dr. Bouwstra, who dedicated her award to Dr. H a r r y Bodd~, is from LACDR, The Netherlands, and Dr. Saltzman is from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. They were each given a silver struck medallion, $1,000 and a grant-in-aid to attend the Kyoto symposium. Dr. Naoya Ogata of Sophia University, Japan, was awarded with the Jorge Heller Journal of Controlled Release Award. He was the main author of the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Controlled Release during the 1995 calendar year. Dr. Ogata was given a plaque, a $1,000 honorarium (donated by Elsevier Science and a grant-in-aid for expenses to attend the Kyoto symposium. The following coauthors received plaques: Teruo Okano, Yukikazu Takeoka,

Takashi Aoki, Kohei Sanui, Yasuhisa Sakurai, Masayoshi Watanabe and Masayuki Yokoyama. The following outstanding paper awards were presented at the CRS 22nd International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, July 30 to August 4, 1995, Seattle, Washington, USA. All presenting authors received plaques as well as a grant-in-aid to attend the Kyoto Symposium.

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Founders Award winner Yasuhisa Sakurai (left), and President, Jind~ich Kope6ek (right)

Distinguished Service Award winner, Theordore Roseman (left), and President, Jind~ich KopeEek (right)

CRS-Cygnus Award winner, Janet Tamada (right), and company sponsor representative Russell Potts

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1996-1997 President, Tsuneji Nagai (left), and I995-1996 President Jindfich Kopecek (right).

CRS-Dow Coming Award winner, Lisa S. Cutts.

Young Investigator Award winner, Joke Bouwstra (left), and President, Jindfich Kope~ek (right), W. Mark Saltzman (not pictured).

Outstanding Pharmaceutical Paper Award winner, Mikhail Papisov.

CRS-3M Pharmaceuticals Award winner, Hamidrea Ghandihari (second from right), company sponsor representatives, and Jind~ich Kopefiek, advisor (far right).

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Award Chairpersons: (left to right) Hans Junginger, Glynn Wilson, David Friend (not pictured: Ruth Duncan).

Dow Coming travel grant winner, Joachim Heizmann.

Merck Research Laboratories travel grant winners and company sponsor representative (not in order according to photo): Chia-Nan Chen, Vera Christmann, Kyung Hee Chun, Bas de Leeuw, Jean-Christope Leroux, Junichiro Noda.

Arrangements Chair, Metsuru Hashida (left), Program Chair, Vincent Lee (center), and Jind}ich Kope6ek 1995-1996 President).

Capsugel Award winners (left to right): Roland Daumesnil (company sponsor representative), Carl-Olov Rentel, Anne Katrin Hilbert, Scott Walsh, David Putman, Horst voo Recum (not pictured: Aviva Ezra).

Colorcon travel grant winners (not in order according to photo): Shamim Ahmed, Achim Berthold, Maria Blanco-Prieto, Young Kweon Choi, Ilia Fishbein, Anthony Lowman, Ji Yu Yin.

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CRS presented the CRS-Cygnus Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work in Drug Delivery to Hongming Chen of M.I.T., and Robert Langer, Advisor-both received plaques. Her company sponsor representatives were Russell Potts and Janet Tamada. The winning paper is #338--Lectin-bearing polymerized liposomes as potential oral vaccine carriers coauthored by Vladimir Torehilin and John Eldridge. The CRS-Dow Coming Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award was given to Dr. Lisa Suzanne Cutts of Astra Charnwood, UK, and Colin Mella, Advisor--both were awarded plaques. Her company sponsor representative was Michel Poll. The winning paper is #ll04--Solute and water

transport within the gel layer of hydrating HPMC tablets, coauthored by R. Bowteil, I. PatersonStephens, Martyn Davies and Colin Melia. The winner of the CRS-3M Pharmaceuticals Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award was Hamidreza Ghandehari of University of Utah, USA, and Jind~ieh Kopefzek, Advisor--both were awarded plaques. His company sponsor representative was Suzanne Thoreson. The winning paper is

116--Hydrogels for colonic drug delivery: effect of synthetic mute on physicochemical properties, coauthored by Ping-Yang Yeh, Pavia Kopeckova and Jind~ich Kope~ek. Mikhall Papisov and his coauthors, Chris Martin, Kirtland Poss, Ralph Weissleder and Thomas Brady (all of Massachusetts General Hospital, U.S.A.) received the CRS Outstanding Pharmaceutical Paper Award for their paper # 2 0 2 2 - Amplification of steric effects in cooperative systems. Mikhail Papisov as well as his coauthors were awarded with plaques. Six graduate and postdocorate students won the CRS-Capsugel Session Award, entitling them to share their research on innovative aspects of controlled the Kyoto minisymposium. They also received a grant-in-aid to attend the Kyoto symposium. The company sponsor representatives were Roland Doumesnil and Allan Gabor. The students awarded were:

• Aviva Ezra of the Jerusalem, Israel

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• Anne Katrin Hilbert of Phillips University, Israel • David Putnam of M.I.T., USA • Horst von Recum of University of Utah, USA • Cari-Olov Rentel of LACDR, The Netherlands • Scott Walsh of Johns Hopkins University, USA

The Nagai Foundation Tokyo Graduate Student Award (lottery) was presented to 100 graduate students at the Kyoto symposium. These students were reimbursed for their symposium registration fee. The winners were: Shamin Ahmed, Ken

Akamatsu, Hamid Akbari, Achim Berthold, Maria Blanco-Prieto, Peter Boderke, Chia-Nan Chert, Young Kweon Choi, Vera Christmann, Kyung Hee Chun, Bas de Leeuw, James Easson, Rom Eliaz, Omar Elmalak, Aviva Ezra, Ilia Fishbein, Kouji Fujii, Katsuhiro Funimoto, Srinivasan Ganga, Maria Gaspar, Hamidreza Ghandehari, Su-Yeo Han, Atsushi Harada, Joachim Heizmann, Gesine Hildebrand, Myo-Sook Hong, Ken-ichi Hosoya, Chang-Shan Hsu, Shinya Iida, Hiraku Ikeda, Tatsuhiro Ishida, Tsutomu Ishihara, S. Kalyanasundaram, Kazuka Kamiyama, Yukio Kato, Kenji Kawabata, Jin Hee Kim, Seoung Soo Kim, Anna Kim, Koichiro Kobayashi, Ryo Kondo, A. Kotze, Motoichi Kurisawa, Connie Kwok, Jogender Lalla, Agnetta Larhed, Sa Won Lee, Jean Christophe Leroux, Weiwen Liang, Soo-Jeong Lim, Lun-Huei Lim, Raimar Leebenberg, Anthony Lowman, Henrik Luessen, Marcelle Machluf, Emmehne Marttin, Kunihiko Metsugi, Hidetaka Moriya, Kazuteru Moriyama, Masahumi Nakamura, Junichiro Noda, Takehiko Nomura, Kazuki Okamoto, Satoshi Ono, Tooru Ooya, Takashi Osada, Suwannee Panomsuk, Kyung-Mi Park, Monica Pena, Patricia Quellec, Rajeev Raghnvanshi, Tracy Richey, Theera Rittirod, Satomi Saeki, Jeanne-Marie Sarciaux, Andreas Schatzlein, Kazuyuki Shimizu, Cunxian Song, Ceclia Sturesson, Tomomi Sugiyama, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Masanori Thkgi, Juuichi Takahara, Shigeo Takemura, Christine Tardi, Antje Uch, Ekapop Viroonchatapan, Hoist von Recnm, Neti Waranuch, JenSen Wu, Shogo Yamane, Koji Yochimui'a, Regina Zange, Zhong Zhao.

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Jorge Heller Journal of Controlled Release Outstanding Paper Award winners (left to right): Masayuki Yokoyama, Teruo Okano, Naoya Ogata (main author), Yasuhisa Sakurai, Masayoshi Watanabe, Takashi Aoki (not pictured: Yukikazu Takeoka, and Kohei Sanui).

Nagai Foundation Awards winners (not all pictured). Names are listed on page 118.

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Becton Dickinson, Colorcon, Dow Corning, Meck Research Laboratories, as well as individual CRS members contributed travel grant funding for CRS students to attend the Kyoto symposium. The awardees are listed below.

Dow Corning Joachim Heizmann

Merck Research Laboratories Becton Dickinson Peter Boderke, Chang-Shan Hsu, Tsutomu Ishihara, Lun-Huei Lin, Marcelle Machluf, Rajeev Raguvanshi, Jeann-Marie Sarciaux.

Chia-Nan Chen, Vera Christmann, Kyung Hee Chun, Bas J. de Leeuw, Jean-Christophe Leroux, Junichiro Noda.

Individual CRS Member Contributions Colorcon Shamim Ahmed, Achim Berthold, Maria BlancoPrieto, Young Kweon Choi, Ilia Fishbein, Anthony Lowman, Ji Yu Yin.

Hamid Akbari, Kouji Fujii, Myo-Sook Hong, Jin Hee Kim, Connie Kwok, Jogender Lalla, Suwannee Panomsuk, Patricia Quellec, Andreas Schatzlein, Neti Waranuch