Franz Volhard Award and Lectureship, supported by Bayer Schering Pharma AG

Purpose: This award and lectureship was endowed by Farbwerke Hoechst in 1972 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Franz Volhard.

Criteria: The award shall be made biennially to a person or persons who, in the opinion of the Awards Committee of the ISH, shall have initiated in the field of hypertension or in a related discipline, a concept which remains of current interest. The recipient shall be invited to deliver to the ISH a lecture on the topic for which the award is bestowed.

Eligibility: Must be a member of the ISH. Previous winners of any senior award are not eligible for nomination a second time.

Officers of the Scientific Council of the ISH and members of the ISH Awards Committee are not eligible to be nominated. Exceptionally, other members of the ISH Council may be eligible.

The ISH 2010 Franz Volhard Award will be presented at an Awards Ceremony and Presidential Lecture during its 23rd Biennial scientific meeting in Vancouver. Date: Wednesday 29th September 2010 Time: 16:00-17:30 hrs Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre New for 2010, the ISH Presidential Lecture will be given, not by the ISH President, but by Dr. Gary Owens, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville. USA and is entitled Epigenetic Control of Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation and Phenotypic Plasticity in Cardiovascular Disease. We hope to see you there! The ISH would like to thank corporate sponsors for their generous support.

 

Past winners:

2008	T Pickering
2006	G Mancia
2004	H Gavras
2002	H Brunner
2000	L Landsberg
1998	JP Chalmers
1996	H de Wardener
1994	E Muirhead
1992	C Johnston
1990	J Shepherd
1988	L Tobian
1986	A Zanchetti
1984	F Gross
1982	P Korner
1980	E Haber
1978	B Folkow
1976	F Byrom
1974	G Pickering