Education&ScienceAwards

Harasawa Research Award

The Lecture is in memory of the late Dr Michiyoshi Harasawa, the first president of the APSR, who died in September 2002.

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.

Dr Harasawa

The Award

  • Travel grant
  • 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

Previous awardees and their chosen topic at the annual APSR Congress

2003 Dr Masayuki Ando Japan
“Summer-type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis”

2004 Dr Hidetada Sasaki 
“New Therapies for Pulmonary Disease in Older People”

2005 Dr Shoji Kudoh 
“Novel Development of Macrolide Treatment of Respiratory Diseases”

2006 Dr Takayuki Kuriyama Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
“Leading Edge of Molecular Pathogenesis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension”

2007 Dr Toshihiro Nukiwa 
“The Implication of EGFR Kinase Constitutive Active Mutation in Lung Adenocarcinoma and Molecular Targeted Therapy in Patients of the Far East Asia”

2008 Dr Michiaki Mishima
“Digital Analysis of the Peripheral Airspace in Respiratory Diseases Using X-Ray CT and Pathological Imaging”

2009 Dr Masaharu Nishimura Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
“Lessons from the Hokkaido COPD Cohort Study”

2010 Dr Mary Sau-Man Ip University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
“Obstructive Sleep Apnea   an evolving minefield”

2011 Dr Pan-Chyr Yang 
“Lung cancer in never-smokers needs more personalized therapy”

2012 Dr Yoichi Nakanishi Japan
“The Long and Winding Road to Unmask Lung Cancer”

2013 Dr Peter Sly Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia
“Early life origins of chronic lung disease”

2014 Dr Kazuhisa Takahashi 
“A Challenge to Overcome of Drug Resistance in Lung Cancer”

2015 Dr Hiroshi Kimura
“Crosstalk between Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Lifestyle-related Diseases”

2016 Dr YC Gary Lee Australia
“Pleural disease – the past, recent advances and what lies ahead”

2017 Dr Takahide Nagase Japan
“Respiratory research using cellular, molecular and physiologic approaches”

2018 Dr Kazuo Chin Japan
“Overcoming sleep disordered breathing for a healthy life expectancy”

2019 Dr Arata Azuma Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
“Paradigm Shift of Management on Pulmonary Fibrosis”

2021 Dr Shinji Teramoto Japan
“A novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategy based on micro-aspiration hypothesis for aspiration pneumonia”

2022 Dr Chong Jen Yu Taiwan
Chronic lung diseases: COPD and bronchiectasis

2023 Dr Kazuto Matsunaga Japan
New Strategies to Realize Clinical Remission in Asthma