Nominations now open for 4th annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine

CLEVELAND, April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- National and international nominations are being sought for the fourth annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine, which honors a physician-scientist for notable achievements in drug research and development that demonstrate innovation, creativity and the potential for clinical application. 

Deadline for nominations is August 29, 2016.

Nomination guidelines can be found at:   HarringtonDiscovery.org/ThePrize.

The Harrington Prize, which carries a $20,000 honorarium, is a collaboration between The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation's oldest and most respected medical honor societies, and the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio – part of The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development. The Harrington Discovery Institute is a nonprofit institute dedicated to supporting physician-scientists in their work to transform bench discoveries into promising leads that may result in novel therapeutics.

Both organizations recognize the obstacles associated with turning discoveries into medicines that improve human health, and they are eager to highlight those who have navigated the path successfully or whose work has led to novel treatments.

A committee composed of members of the ASCI Council and the Harrington Discovery Institute Scientific Advisory Board will review the nominations and select the awardee.

In addition to receiving the honorarium, the 2017 recipient will deliver The Harrington Prize Lecture at the 2017 Joint Meeting of the Association of American Physicians (AAP), the ASCI, and the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) on April 21-23, 2017, will participate at the 2017 Harrington Discovery Institute annual symposium (May 24 -25, 2017), and will publish a personal essay in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Previous award winners are Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD (2016), Douglas R. Lowy, MD (2015), and Harry C. Dietz, MD (2014).  For questions or more information about the nomination requirements, visit HarringtonDiscovery.org/ThePrize or contact Natalie Haynes, Harrington Discovery Institute Program Director, at [email protected].

SOURCE Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals