Avanti Awards in Lipids

The Avanti Awards in Lipids recognize outstanding research contributions.

WALTER A. SHAW YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN LIPID RESEARCH

This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids by young investigators who are an Assistant professor or equivalent and with no more than 10 years of experience since receiving their degree (PhD and/or MD).

2023 - Itay Budin
2022 - Michael Airola
2020/2021 – Jeremy Baskin
2019 – Shu Sin Chng
2018 – John Burke
2017 – Gregory D. Fairn
2016 – Christer S. Ejsing
2015 – Britta Brügger
2014 – Mary L. Kraft
2013 – Tobias Walther
2012 – Peter Espenshade
2011 – Charles E. Chalfant
2010 – Sarah Keller

AVANTI POLAR LIPIDS / EBSA AWARD

This award aims to recognize the most important European scientific contributions in the understanding of Biophysics of lipids, including metabolism, enzymology, structure and membranes.

2023 - Dimitrios Stamou
2021 - Elina Ikonen
2019 - Bruno Antonny
2017 - Jean-Marie Ruysschaert
2015 - J. Antoinette Killian
2013 - Felix Goñi

AVANTI-BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY

This award is given to an investigator for outstanding contributions to our understanding of lipid biophysics.

2023 - Karen G. Fleming
2022 - Patricia Bassereau
2021 – Richard Pastor
2020 – Akihiro Kusumi
2019 – Enrico Gratton
2018 – Wonhwa Cho
2017 – Sarah L. Keller
2016 – Philip Yeagle
2015 – Gerald Feigenson
2014 – Michael Brown
2013 – Joseph Zasadzinski
2012 – Huey W. Huang
2011 – Eric Oldfield
2010 – James A. Hamilton
2009 – Stephen H. White
2008 – Ben de Kruijff
2007 – Klaus Gawrisch
2006 – Thomas E. Thompson
2005 – Joachim Seelig
2004 – Thomas J. McIntosh
2003 – John F. Nagle & Stephanie Tristram-Nagle
2001 – Ronald McElhaney
1999 – Richard M. Epand
1998 – Lewis C. Cantley
1997 – Ching-hsien Huang

AVANTI-ASBMB AWARD

This Award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids.

2023 - Russell DeBose-Boyd
2022 - Alex Toker
2020/2021 – Jean Schaffer
2019 – Vytas Bankaitis
2018 – Dennis Voelker
2017 – Volker Hauke
2016 – Robert V. Farese, Jr.
2015 – Karen Reue
2014 – Sandra Hofmann
2013 – Susan Henry
2012 – George M. Carman
2011 – Yusuf Hannun
2010 – David W. Russell
2009 – Sarah Spiegel
2008 – Alexandra C. Newton
2007 – Scott D. Emr
2006 – Dennis Vance
2005 – William Dowhan
2004 – William L. Smith, Ph.D.
2003 – Robert Bittman
2002 – Christian R.H. Raetz
2000 – Edward A. Dennis
1998 – Lewis C. Cantley
1996 – Robert M. Bell

AVANTI-OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD in Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation, & Related Disease

This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the area of lipids.

2022 - Catherine Godson
2022 - Makoto Murakami
2019 – Junken Aoki, Ph.D.
2019 -- Jesper Z. Haegstromm, Ph.D.
2019 -- Sarah Spiegel, M.D.
2017 – Bruce D. Hammock, Ph.D.
2017 -- Jorge H. Capdevila, Ph.D.
2017 -- Darryl C. Zeldin, M.D.
2015 – Timothy Hla, Ph.D.
2013 – Takao Shimizu, M.D., Ph.D.
2013 -- Andrew J. Dannenberg, M.D.
2011-- Carlo Patrono, M.D.
2011 -- Garret A. FitzGerald, M.D.
2009 – Edward J. Goetzl, M.D.

The Catherine E. Costello Award for Women Scientists in Mass Spectrometry - Sponsored by Avanti Research, Inc.

This award recognizes a woman who has made substantial contributions in mass spectrometry in her professional work and is dedicated to the success of the laboratory’s mass spectrometry program.

2020 -- Sarah Riley