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Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal

The deadline for nominations for all Acta Materialia and Acta Biomateriala awards is February 1st each year. For the Acta Materialia Silver medal and the Acta Biomaterialia Silver medal, the nominees must be 45 years or younger on December 31 the previous year.

The Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal recognizes demonstrated leadership in the field of Science and Engineering of Biomaterials. It rewards either

  • materials research that has had a significant and lasting impact on the development of the discipline, or
  • recent work of great originality.

The awardee should be a recognized world leader in the field of biomaterials, whose accomplishments in discovery and translation to practice are surpassing and well known in the field.

With this distinction Acta Materialia, Inc. not only intends to honor outstanding contributions to the field but also to improve the awareness of the fundamental importance and diversity of materials research, both within the community and the public at large.

The Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award consists of a gold medal, an inscribed certificate, and a cash prize of US$10,000.

Candidates for this award may be proposed by any scientist/engineer/practitioner or any biomaterials related society, previous Acta Biomaterialia award recipients, Sponsoring or Cooperating Societies of Acta Materialia, Inc., and Editors of the Acta Materialia journals.

The nomination package should contain

  • Curriculum vitae
  • Statement by the nominator specifying the candidate’s suitability for the award**
  • Letters of support from up to three distinguished scientists in the field
  • Citation of not more than 30 words

**Please emphasize the nominee’s impact on their research field, rather than the metrics on their publications.

Nominations remain in effect for three years unless withdrawn or re-endorsed, with an additional justification, for an additional two-year period. Current members of the Acta Materialia Board of Governors and of the Award Selection Committee are not eligible.

The Award Selection Committee is formed of five judges, themselves distinguished biomaterials scientists.

The Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal is awarded each year, unless the judges feel no candidate is qualified. The presentation is made at a venue approved by the Acta Materialia Executive Committee. The Award will not be bestowed in absentia except under extraordinary circumstances.

Nominations should be submitted to the Executive Secretary (Prof. Carolyn Hansson, [email protected]), as a single file document preferably in PDF or Word format.

Acta Materialia, Inc.

Acta Materialia, Inc. (http://www.actamaterialia.org) is a non-profit organization representing 36 professional societies worldwide. It is dedicated to disseminating the knowledge of science and engineering of materials, primarily by publishing high quality journals covering all aspects of the multidisciplinary field of materials science and engineering, including biomaterials, nanomaterials, materials chemistry and physics. The corporation publishes four journals in collaboration with Elsevier: Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia, and Materialia.

Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award Recipients

2024

Patrick Couvreur

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France

2023

Clemens van Blitterswijk

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Netherlands

2022

Chad Mirkin

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U.S.A.

2021

Xingdong Zhang

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China

2020

Cato T. Laurencin

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U.S.A.

2019

Antonios G. Mikos

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2018

Jeffrey Hubbell

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2017

Allan S. Hoffman

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U.S.A.

2016

Klaas de Groot

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Netherlands

2015

Jack Lemons

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2014

Larry Hench

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2013

James M. Anderson

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2012

David Williams

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U.K.

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2011

Michael Sefton

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Canada

2008

Robert Langer

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2010

Nicholas Peppas

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2009

Buddy Ratner

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U.S.A.