Woolcock Research Award
Prof. Woolcock
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 in Hanoi, Vietnam, 14–17 November 2019.
The Lecture is in memory of the late Dr Ann Janet Woolcock, who died 17 February 2001, shortly after galantly serving as APSR president since 1998. She was a founding member of the initial Steeering Committee for the APSR and despite suffering illness for many years, she dedicated herself in promoting the fast-growing APSR on the international stage.
The Award includes:
- Return economy airfare from the awardee's usual place of residence to Taipei
- Four nights' accommodation at a Congress-designated hotel
- Complimentary Congress registration
- Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress
- Commemorative plaque
Nominations:
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, including CV and lecture topic, should be sent to the APSR Secretariat (APSRinfo@theapsr.org) and will be considered by the APSR Research Committee.
Self-nominations can be submitted.
Deadline for nominations: 28 February 2019
Previous awardees and their chosen topic at the annual APSR Congress include:
| 2003 | Dr Guy Marks | "" |
| 2004 | Dr Peter Gibson | "" |
| 2005 | Dr Cheryl Salome | "" |
| 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 | "" |
| 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 | "" |
| 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 | "" |
| 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" |
