Education＆ScienceAwards
Woolcock Research Award
The Awardee will deliver the Woolcock Memorial Lecture on a topic of their choice. This is one of the most important plenary sessions at the APSR Congress.
The Lecture is in memory of the late Dr Ann Janet Woolcock, who died 17 February 2001, shortly after gallantly serving as APSR president since 1998. She was a founding member of the initial Steering Committee for the APSR and despite suffering illness for many years, she dedicated herself in promoting the fast-growing APSR on the international stage.
Nominations for the honour of delivering the Lecture can be made by any member of the APSR and nominees can be any member of the APSR whose work enshrines excellence in respiratory research.
Nominations will be considered by the APSR Nomination Committee.
The Award
- Travel grant 1
- Three nights’ accommodation at a Congress-designated hotel
- Complimentary Congress registration
- Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress
- Commemorative plaque
- The awardee may also be introduced on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media.
The Awardee
- The awardee must be an APSR member
Nominations:
- Nominations should include CV and lecture topic
- Deadline: Nominations must be received by the APSR Secretariat congress@apsr.org by 15 February 2024
Previous awardees and their chosen topic at the annual APSR Congress
2003 Dr Guy Marks
“A Public Health Approach to Controlling Asthma and COPD”
2004 Dr Peter Gibson
“The Importance of Inflammatory Phenotypes in Asthma”
2005 Dr Cheryl Salome
“Obesity and Asthma – Is There Evidence for a Causal Association?”
2006 Dr Alan James University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
“Airway Hyperresponsiveness – Have We Answered Dr Woolcock’s Question?”
2007 Dr Peter Sly Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia
“To Wheeze or Not To Wheeze: What Are the Mechanisms?”
2008 Dr David Hui
“Are We Prepared for the Next Influenza Pandemic? Some Lessons from the SARS Epidemic”
2009 Dr Judith Lee Black University of Sydney, Australia
“What Can In Vitro Studies Tell Us About Chronic Airways Disease?”
2010 Dr Richard Beasley Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, New Zealand
“Oxygen – a new look at an old therapy”
2011 Dr Dong Soon Kim
“Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”
2012 Dr Christine Jenkins
“Clinical trial design in COPD : controversies and consequences”
2013 Dr Shu Hashimoto Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan
“Epithelial cell in asthma pathogenesis”
2014 Dr Greg King
“Why Physiologic Investigation in Asthma is More Relevant Now Than Ever”
2015 Dr Ian Yang
“Translating advances in research to improved health outcomes for patients with respiratory disease”
2016 Dr Makoto Hoshino Japan
“Asthma – Lessons learned from pathophysiology to imaging studies”
2017 Dr Alan James Australia
“Airway hyperresponsiveness – does it take two to tango?”
2018 Dr Sandra D Anderson Australia
“Tests for identifying bronchial hyperresponsiveness”
2019 Dr Vanessa M McDonald Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs, The University of Newcastle, Australia
“Individualised Management for Asthma – How far have we come?”
2021 Dr David CL Lam Hong Kong
“Biomarkers for Lung Cancer in the Asia-Pacific region”
2022 Dr Anne Chang Australia
“Why improve the management of chronic cough in children through clinical care and research?”
2023 Prof Paul Reynolds Australia
“Macrolides and Airways Disease – Bench to Bedside”
2024 Dr Philip Bardin Australia
“Research to understand, diagnose and treat disease in the upper, middle and lower airway – a united airway approach”
