Awards

Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher | Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence | Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence | Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence | Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence

Established through an endowment, The Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher Award was created to honor exceptional leadership and achievement in the field of androgen excess and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) research. This award supports the vision of the Society in fostering the highest quality research in androgen excess and PCOS research. Awardees are selected annually by an impartial committee based on their outstanding contributions to the field. Typically, one award is granted each year.

Ricardo Azziz is a reproductive endocrinologist and internationally recognized researchers who founded the AEPCOS society.

Professor Ray Rodgers is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (1984) and undertook a post-doctoral fellowships at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (1984-1986), and at Prince Henry’s Institute for Medical Research (1987-1989). He has been a QEII fellow, a BBSRC fellow and a NHMRC fellow (1993-2016). He was recently the Interim Director of the Robinson Research Institute (2021-2023) and is Convenor or Reproductive Health Australia (2021 to present). He conducts largely basic research into reproductive biology, focusing on the mammalian ovary and its endocrine functions. His team have been researching the aetiology of polycystic ovary syndrome since 2007.

2024 Professor Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

2023 Professor Daniel Dumesic, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA

2022 Professor Vasantha Padmanabhan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2021 Professor David Abbott, University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, United States

2020 Professor Richard Legro, Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA

2019 Professor Andrea Dunaif, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

2018 Professor Stephen Franks, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

2017 Professor Rogerio Lobo, Columbia University United States

2016 Professor Didier Dewailly, Lille University Hospital France

2015 Professor Robert Norman, University of Adelaide Australia

The Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence Award recognizes individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the education, research, and practice in androgen excess disorders, including PCOS. Awardees exemplify excellence through scholarly endeavors, teaching excellence, education innovation, passionate advocacy, and dedicated service. Typically, one award is presented annually.

Walter Futterweit was medical endocrinologist at Mount Sinai in New York City and was Past President of AE-PCOS society.

2024 Dr. Anuja Dokras, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, USA

2023 Dr. Zi-Jiang Chen, Shandong University, China

2022 Dr. Bulent Yildiz, Hacettepe University of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey

2021 Dr. Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

2020 Dr. Helena Teede, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

2019 Dr. Hector Escobar-Morreale, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spaino

2018 Dr. Enrico Carmina, University of Palermo Medical School, Italy

2017 Dr. Walter Futterweit, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai United States

The Azziz-Baumgartner Family Early Career Investigator Awards were created through an endowment to recognize and support young researchers presenting original work at the AE-PCOS Society Annual Meetings. These awards support the vision of the Society to foster and support the development of young investigators in the field of androgen excess and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) research. Awardees are selected by an impartial committee from all abstracts submitted for consideration to the Annual Meetings. You must be a member of the AE-PCOS Society to be eligible for the awards. Typically, two awards are presented yearly.

2024 Snigdha Alur-Gupta, University Of Pennsylvania, USA

2024 Lena Luyckx, University of Oulu, Finland

2023 Mauro Silva, Harvard Medical School, USA

2023 Thais P. Roche, University of Birmingham, U.K.

2022 Noel Yh Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, P. R. China
2022 Heidi Vanden Brink, Texas A&M University, United States

2021 Li Meng, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Aisha Sati, University of Otago,Dunedin, New Zealand

2020 Carolyn Cesta, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Mamaru Awoke, Monash University, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2020 Tiantian Zhu, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2019 Valentina Rodrigues Paris, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2019 Loes Moolhuijsen, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2018 Geranne Jiskoot, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Meri Maija Ollila, University of Oulu, Finland

2017 Noel Yat Hey Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
2017 Pedro Torres, San Diego State University United States

2016 Dr. Michael Bertoldo, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of New South Wales Australia
2016 Dr. Nadira Sultana Kakoly, PhD Candidate Monash University Australia