Excellence Award for Hypertension Research

Applications will open on March 12, 2025

To qualify for this award, you must meet the following deadlines:

May 29, 2025 – Deadline to have an active AHA membership with the Council on Hypertension.
May 30, 2025, 6 p.m. (CT) – Deadline to apply for this award in the Council Awards System.

This award honors excellence in research and discoveries in the field of hypertension, as well as a researcher's contributions. The selection committee assesses the candidates' impact on their fields throughout their productive careers, as well as any single discovery.

Eligibility Criteria

Must be a member of the AHA Council on Hypertension at the time nomination is submitted. Join or renew today!
Scientists with a background in hypertension research and those who have made a meritorious scientific discovery or discoveries, either alone or with others, may be considered. The Selection Committee will assess the candidates' overall credentials and their impact on the field of hypertension.
A scientist may be nominated an unlimited number of times by different individuals in the same year.
Previous winners are not eligible for nomination.
Nominators may submit an updated application in subsequent years through the Council Awards & Fellowships Application System for nominees not selected.
Due to the prestige of the Excellence in Hypertension Research Award (including previous names for the award), past recipients are not eligible to apply or be nominated for other awards sponsored by the Council on Hypertension.
Each recipient of AHA council-sponsored awards, regardless of award category, is eligible to receive only one council-sponsored award each year per AHA scientific meeting.
Members of the Council on Hypertension Excellence Award in Hypertension Research Selection Committee are not eligible to write letters of support for the applicant.

How to Make a Nomination / Required Documents

Electronic submission through the Council Awards Application System is required. Hard copies of any part of the nomination cannot be accepted.

The nomination file (submitted on the nominee’s behalf) should contain the following documents in PDF format:

Letter of nomination on behalf of the candidate or candidates that outlines a description of the work or discovery that qualifies for consideration for the award (members of the Excellence Award for HTN research selection committee cannot submit letters of nomination).
Curriculum vitae, including all publications (abstracts not necessary).
Three reference letters, one primary and two supporting, written on electronic letterhead, from people familiar with the candidate’s work and scientific contributions to the field of hypertension.
Electronic copies of up to three of the candidate’s most important publications.
Candidate biography (250 words or less), which may be used for publicity.

Visit the Council Awards Application System to complete a nomination.

A username and password previously set up through online profile registration at Professional Heart Daily will be necessary to access the Application System. If you have not created an online profile yet, please visit Professional Heart Daily to create an online member profile before accessing the Council Awards Application System. AHA Professional Members who are creating an online profile for the first time should make sure to register using their AHA membership identification numbers.

Prize

The winner will present a lecture during the Hypertension Scientific Sessions and will receive complimentary registration, a $2,500 honorarium, two (2) tickets to the Hypertension Scientific Sessions Awards Banquet, and an award medal medallion.

Honorees must attend Hypertension Scientific Sessions in-person to be eligible for a travel reimbursement of up to $1,000.

Round-trip basic economy/coach airfare at the 21-day advance purchase rate, round-trip economy coach train fare, or reimbursement for gas at the rate allowed by the IRS for charitable organizations if the awardee drives.
Hotel accommodation for one night at the conference rate.
Ground transportation expenses to attend the conference (luxury transport is not a reimbursable expense.)

To and from the awardee’s home airport to the conference hotel
To and from the conference hotel to the airport

Up to $70 in meal reimbursement (alcohol excluded).

Award Recipients

The Excellence Award for Hypertension Research

The Excellence Award for Hypertension Research
Year	Awardee
2024	Bina Joe, PhD, FAHA, FAPS, ISHF
2023	Lisa A. Cassis, PhD
2022	Joey P. Granger, PhD, FAHA Edwin K. Jackson, PhD, FAHA
2021	Alan Kim Johnson, PhD, FAHA Daniel Levy, MD, FAHA Jane F. Reckelhoff, PhD, FAHA, FAPS
2020	Giuseppe Mancia, MD, PhD
2019	Rhian M. Touyz, MBBCh, PhD, FMedSci, FAHA
2018	Paul K. Whelton, MB, MD, MSc, FAHA R. Clinton Webb, PhD, FAHA
2017	Allyn L. Mark, MD, FAHA Richard J. Roman, PhD, FAHA
2016	Suzanne Oparil, MD, FAHA R. Ariel Gomez , MD, FAHA
2015	Costantino Iadecola, MD Pedro Jose, MD, PhD, FAHA
2014	Thomas M. Coffman, MD Toshiro Fujita, MD, PhD
2013	Murray Esler, MBBS, PhD
2012	Robert M. Carey, MD, FAHA L. Gabriel Navar, PhD, FAHA

The Novartis Award For Hypertension Research

The Novartis Award For Hypertension Research
Year	Awardee
2011	Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD Christopher Wilcox, MD, PhD
2010	John Oates, MD Paul Vanhoutte, MD, PhD
2009	Carlos M. Ferrario, MD Curt D. Sigmund, PhD
2008	Mordecai P. Blaustein, MD John W. Funder, MD, PhD Juan Carlos Romero, MD
2007	Friedrich C. Luft, MD
2006	William B. Campbell, PhD Theodore W. Kurtz, MD
2005	Kenneth Bernstein, MD Barry Brenner, MD
2004	Jorge H. Capdevila, PhD David G. Harrison, MD
2003	M. Judah Folkman, MD
2002	John E. Hall, PhD Gerald F. DiBona, MD
2001	Victor J. Dzau, MD
2000	Hans R. Brunner, MD Jay N. Cohn, MD Haralambos Gavras, MD
1999	Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD
1998	Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD
1997	Oscar A. Carretero, MD Allen W. Cowley, Jr., PhD Donald Dean Heistad, MD

The Ciba Award For Hypertension Research

The Ciba Award For Hypertension Research
Year	Awardee
1996	Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD Oliver Smithies, DPhil
1995	Louis J. Ignarro, PhD Salvador Moncada, MD, PhD, DSc, FRS
1994	Adolfo J. Debold, OC, PhD, FRSC Ervin G. Erdos, MD
1993	John Paul Rapp, DVM, PhD
1992	Detlev Ganten, MD, PhD
1991	Salomon Z. Langer, MD Andrew P. Somlyo, MD Avril V. Somlyo, PhD
1990	Francois M. Abboud, MD Michael J. Brody, PhD
1989	Edgar Haber, MD
1988	Robert R. Furchgott, PhD Ferld Murad, MD, PhD
1987	Donald J. Reis, MD
1986	Maurice B. Burg, MD John C. McGiff, MD E. Eric Muirhead, MD
1985	Pierre Corvol, MD Joel Menard, MD Tadashi Inagami, PhD
1984	David R. Bohr, MD
1983	David W. Cushman, PhD Miguel A. Ondetti, PhD Sergio Henrique Ferrelra, MD, PhD
1982	Kyuzo Aoki, MD Kozo Okamoto, MD Yukio Yamori, MD
1981	Edward D. Freis, MD William B. Kannel, MD
1980	Bjorn U.G. Folkow, MD, PhD Arthur C. Guyton, MD
1979	Karl H. Beyer, Jr., MD James M. Sprague, PhD
1978	Louis Tobian, Jr., MD
1977	John A. Luetscher, MD James F. Talt, FRS Sylvia Talt, Bsc, FRS
1976	Raymond P. Ahlquist, PhD James W. Black, FRS
1975	Lewis K. Dahl, MD James O. Davis, MD Walter Kempner, MD

The Stouffer Prize

The Stouffer Prize
Year	Awardee
1972	Vincent P. Dole, MD John W. Gofman, MD Robert S. Gordon, Jr, MD John L. Oncley, MD
1970	Irvine H. Page, MD Sir George Pickering, MD 1969 Jerome W. Conn, MD Jacques Genest, MD Franz Gross, MD John H. Laragh, MD
1968	F. Merlin Bumpus, PhD W. Stanley Peart, MD Robert Schwyzer, PhD Leonard T. Skeggs Jr., PhD
1967	John W. Cornforth, MD U.S. Von Euler, MD Peter Holtz, MD George J. Pipjak, MD
1966	Harry Goldblatt, MD Ernst Klenk, MD