Excellence Award for Hypertension Research
Award submission for Hypertension Scientific Sessions will reopen in spring 2025.
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
| Year | Awardee |
|---|---|
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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 |
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