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
• 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 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

2024　Dr Mitsuo Sato　Japan
Immortalized Normal Human Lung Epithelial Cell Models As Tools for Biomedical Research