Dr. Sugiyama has won the AAPS
Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award


Dr. Sugiyama has been selected as the 2003 recipient of the AAPS Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award.
This award is the highest honor conferred by the AAPS. There have only been seven scientists selected in the past,
and Dr. Sugiyama is the first non-American scientist to win the award.
We are proud that his achievements have been rated so highly, like his area of research, “the integration of Molecular and Cell Biology with enzyme and transporter mediated Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics.”
The AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition is a key meeting for those engaged in drug discovery science research, and involves around 7,000 participants and 1,100 exhibition booths. It was held from Oct. 26 to Oct. 30 in Salt Lake City this year. At the opening ceremony of this annual meeting, Dr. Sugiyama was honored and his research results were introduced at a roundtable session the next day.

The previous recipients are:
Leslie Z. Benet, Ph.D. in 1989
Dale E. Wurster, Ph. D in 1991
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D. in 1993
George Zografi, Ph.D. in 1995
Ronald T. Borchardt, Ph. D. in 1997
Joseph R. Robison, Ph.D. in 1999
Wolfgang Sadee, Ph.D. in 2001


Below you will find the text which appeared in the “2003 Awards Program” booklet (Booklet.pdf )for the ceremony
held on Oct 26, 2003 at Salt Lake City, Utah

.....congratulations!