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“Through their personal accomplishments and professional achievements, AAI Public Service Award recipients exemplify the nobility and necessity of the scientific enterprise in the United States.”
 
About the AAI Public Service Award (PSA)
 
        ► 2009 Recipients:
  • The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • Families USA
    (Ron Pollack, Executive Director)
Previous PSA Recipients
 
AAI Staff Recognition Award
 
        ► 2009 Recipients:
  • Erik Fatemi
  • Sudip Parikh, Ph.D.

About the AAI Public Service Award

  • The AAI Public Service Award (PSA) program began in 1994.
     
  • The PSA is bestowed annually on “individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advocacy and support of basic biomedical and immunologic research” and who have “distinguished themselves in such diverse fields as public affairs and policymaking, journalism and scientific writing, scientific research, research administration, minority recruitment and education in the sciences, and disease research advocacy.”

Previous PSA Recipients

1994 Representative John Porter (R-10th, Ill, now retired)
1995 Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR, now retired)
1996 Bradie Metheny, former publisher, Washington FAX
1997 Senator Connie Mack (R-FL, now retired) and Sam Donaldson, ABC News
1999 Representative Dan Miller (R-13th, FL, now retired)
2000 Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
2001 Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)
2002 Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, former Acting Director/Deputy Director, NIH
2003 Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
2004 Mort Kondracke, journalist/commentator and Roll Call Executive Editor
2005 Frankie Trull, President, National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR) and Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR)
2006 Vicki and Fred Modell, Co-founders of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF)
2007 Dr. Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging
2009

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-8th, CA), U.S. House of Representatives, and Ron Pollack for Families USA


About the AAI Staff Recognition Award
  • The AAI Staff Recognition Award program began in 2004.
     
  • The AAI Staff Recognition Award is intended to recognize the important contributions of those who work “behind the scenes” but who play crucial roles in advancing biomedical research.

Previous Staff Recognition Award Recipients 

2004 Bettilou Taylor, staff director for the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
2009 Erik Fatemi, professional staff for the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
2009 Sudip Parikh, Ph.D., professional staff and science advisor for the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

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