Distinguished Achievement Award in Basic Science
Recognition Award nominations are under review. AGA will announce the 2024 recipients by press release in Spring 2024.
Recognition Award nominations are under review. AGA will announce the 2025 recipients by press release in Spring 2025.
AGA will announce the 2023 Recognition Award Recipients in early 2023.
Description
Established in 1968, the Distinguished Achievement Award in Basic Science recognizes an individual whose accomplishments in basic research have significantly advanced the science and practice of gastroenterology. Beginning in 2013, the prize is awarded annually.
Eligibility
- The nominee’s contributions must have significantly impacted the understanding of basic biology as it relates to the gastrointestinal tract; nominees need not be gastroenterologists and consideration is given to scientists and medical professionals from all fields.
- Nominees must have a current AGA membership and be long-standing members.
- Recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Basic Science become ineligible to receive other AGA recognition prizes for a period of three years subsequent to their receipt of the award.
Selection process
- The recipient is selected by the AGA Recognition Prizes Panel constituting members of the AGA Diversity Committee, AGA Institute Clinical Guidelines Committee, AGA Institute Education and Training Committee, AGA Institute Practice Management and Economics Committee, and AGA Institute Research Policy Committee.
- The AGA Governing Board ratifies the recipient.
- An individual may only receive one AGA recognition prize per year.
Nominations are reviewed according to the eligibility criteria listed above and the following review and selection criteria. Nominees:
- Have an impactful body of basic research discoveries. The collective body of research has advanced our understanding of basic biology associated with the gastrointestinal tract.
- Have demonstrated exemplary service to AGA through service or leadership on AGA committees, journal editorial boards and/or the governing board. Recognition as an AGA Fellow is also considered.
- Have generously contributed their expertise and leadership to the field, through for example:
- Peer-review of grants.
- Service on journal editorial boards.
- Leadership and/or service on graduate and/or medical school committees.
Recognition
The recipient will receive a $5,000 monetary prize and recognition at the AGA Awards Ceremony during Digestive Disease Week®. AGA will reimburse the recipient’s travel expenses and provide hotel accommodations for up to two nights. Travel expenses for one guest are also reimbursed.
Nomination process
All nominations are submitted online by a primary nominator who is an AGA member. The names of additional AGA members who support the nomination should be listed on the nomination form and included as signatories in the nomination letter.
Complete nomination packages include the following supporting materials:
- A nomination letter, not to exceed three pages (1,800 words), copied directly into the nomination form. The primary nominator will sign the letter in the nomination system and can identify additional AGA members to endorse the nomination.
- The nominee’s curriculum vitae. Please upload the file as a PDF titled with the nominee’s last name and first initial (e.g., DoeJ_CV.pdf).
Current members of the AGA Recognition Prizes Panel and AGA Governing Board are prohibited from submitting or supporting nominations.
CONTACT
Please direct all questions about this and other AGA recognition prizes to 301-941-2619 or via email at [email protected].
Recipients (1968-2024)
| 2024 | Jerrold R. Turner, MD, PhD, AGAF |
| 2023 | James R. Goldenring, MD, PhD, AGAF |
| 2022 | Michael Gershon, MD |
| 2021 | Kim Barrett, PhD, AGAF |
| 2020 | R. Balfour Sartor, MD |
| 2019 | Harry B. Greenberg, MD: Viral Pathogenesis |
| 2018 | T. Jake Liang, MD, AGAF: Viral Hepatitis |
| 2017 | Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD: Gastric Physiology and Pathophysiology |
| 2016 | Mark Donowitz, MD, AGAF: Intestinal Sodium Absorption/Diarrhea |
| 2014 | John A. Williams, MD, PhD: Regulation of the Exocrine Pancreas |
| 2013 | Pelayo Correa, MD: Pathology and Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Cancers |
| 2011 | Sidney J. Winawer: Polyps and the Prevention of Colorectal Cancer |
| 2010 | Mary K. Estes, PhD: Gastroenteritis Virus Pathogenesis and New Vaccines |
| 2008 | John G. Forte: Discovery and Characterization of the H,K-ATPase |
| 2007 | Daniel K. Podolsky: Healing and Repair within the GI Tract |
| 2005 | Henry J. Binder: Colonic Ion Transport/Diarrhea |
| 2004 | Raymond DuBois, Jr.: COX-2 |
| 2001 | Nicholas F. LaRusso: Cholangiopathies |
| 2002 | Gabriel M. Makhlouf: Regulation of Gastrointestinal Function by Gut Peptides |
| 1998 | John Walsh: Neurohumoral Control of Gastric Secretion in Humans or Animals/Human Peptic Ulcer Disease |
| 1996 | Young S. Kim: Mucosal Glycoproteins |
| 1995 | Barry Marshall: Helicobacter Pylori |
| 1993 | James D. Jamieson: Exocytosis from the Pancreatic Acinar Cell: The Outs and Ins of It |
| 1991 | Jeffrey Gordon: The Use of Transgenic Mice to Study Gut Epithelial Cell Differentiation |
| 1990 | Martin C. Carey: Reflections from Moving Objects: Micelles in Bile and Gut Revisisted |
| 1989 | James L. Boyer: What Makes Bile Flow? |
| 1987 | Joseph H. Szurszewski: Myo-Neural Mechanisms of GI Motility and Dysmotility, Predictors and Disease |
| 1986 | Michael D. Levitt: Gaseous Insights into Intestinal Physiology |
| 1984 | Michael Field: The Cell Biology of Diarrheal Disease |
| 1983 | Kurt Isselbacher: Biochemical Studies of the Structure and Function of the Gut |
| 1981 | Warren Strober: Immunoregulatory Defects in Inflammatory Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract |
| 1980 | Rudi Schmid: Bilirubin: Old and New |
| 1978 | John M. Dietschy: The Biological and Clinical Importance of Diffusion Barriers |
| 1977 | Cyrus E. Rubin: Blood and Guts: More than a Quarter Century of Morphologic Research |
| 1975 | Jared M. Diamond: Functional Organization of Epithelia: Dead End Channels and Leaky Cement |
| 1974 | James McGuigan: Development and Current Status of Radioimmunoassay of Gastrin |
| 1973 | Charles S. Lieber: Hepatic Injury and Metabolic Adaptation in Alcoholism |
| 1972 | Donald M. Small: Biliary Lipids, Bile and Gallstones |
| 1971 | John S. Fordtran: Models for the Intestinal Transport of Ions, Water and Sugars |
| 1970 | Alan F. Hofmann: Functions and Dysfunctions of Bile Acids |
| 1969 | Robert K. Crane: Digestive Absorptive Function: Lessons from the Brush Border |
| 1968 | Irwin M. Ariazs: Inheritable Jaundice in Man and Other Animals |
