CRS 2025 Award Recipients

We proudly honor those who have contributed to the society and the science, and look forward to recognizing them during an award ceremony at the 2025 CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

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Claus-Michael Lehr, PhD
Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)

DRUG DELIVERY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL BEST PAPER AWARD

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Christopher McConville
University of Birmingham

"Local administration of irinotecan using an implantable drug delivery device stops high-grade glioma tumor recurrence in a glioblastoma tumor model"

EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD - BY THE YOUNG SCIENTIST COMMITTEE

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Twan Lammers, PhD
RWTH Aachen University

FOUNDERS AWARD

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Samir Mitragotri, PhD
Harvard University

INDUSTRY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

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Art Tipton, PhD
Vulcan Gray

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Maria Teresa Peracchia, PhD 
Sanofi

JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE BEST PAPER AWARD

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Janin Germer
Cytiva

"Lipo-Xenopeptide Polyplexes for CRISPR/Cas9 based Gene editing at ultra-low dose"

MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARD

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Maria Vivero-Lopez
University of Nottingham

PhD THESIS AWARD 

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Anshuman Dasgupta
Massachusetts Institute of Technology         

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David Klein Cerrejon
ETH Zürich

PhD Thesis Finalists:
Brett Pogostin
Soraia Filipa Pinto

RISING WOMEN IN SCIENCE AWARD

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Hagar Labouta, PhD
University of Toronto

SAMYANG AWARD IN HONOR OF SUNG WAN KIM

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Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, PhD 
Tel Aviv University

TRANSDERMAL DELIVERY KYDONIEUS FOUNDATION AWARD

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Ana Melero, PhD
University of Valencia

WOMEN IN SCIENCE AWARD

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Soumya Rahima Benhabbour, PhD  
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

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Assaf Zinger, PhD 
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology