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Applied Clinical Trials

  • Applied Clinical Trials-06-20-2006
  • Volume 0
  • Issue 0

Awards Ceremony

DIA President, Theresa Kane Musser, Executive Director, Development Operations, Rigel Pharmaceuticals, presented the awards

DIA President, Theresa Kane Musser, Executive Director, Development Operations, Rigel Pharmaceuticals, presented the awards, which were handed out in the following order:

Drug Information Journal Awards:

Drug Information Journal Student Award: Radhika Nair, MS, PhD, and Anju Parthan, MS, PhD

The Donald E. Francke Award for Overall Excellence in Journal Publishing: Scott Patterson, PhD, and Marilyn Agin, PhD

The Thomas W. Teal Award: William F. Rosenberger, PhD

The DIA Lifetime Membership:

  • Dave Domann, MS, RPh, Senior Director, Healthcare Quality Management, Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, Titusville, NJ.

The Outstanding Service Award:

  • Herng-Der Chern, MD, PhD, Executive Director of Taiwan's Center for Drug Evaluation.


  • Martin D. Hynes, III, PhD, Director of Product Research and Development, Eli Lilly and Company.


  • Shigeru Kageyama, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Jikei University School of Medicine.


  • Mohammed Razdar Khan, Director, Synergex Consulting, Ontario, Canada.


  • Pulok K. Mukherjee, MPharm, PhD, FIC, Acting Director, the School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.


  • Gary G. Walker, Associate Director, Global Data Integration Standards, Quintiles.

The First Founders Service Award:

  • Michael R. Hamrell, PhD, RAC, editor-in-chief of the Drug Information Journal.

The Distinguished Career Award:

  • Harry A. Guess, MD, PhD, who passed away in January 2006, was an active member of the association before serving as DIA President from 1992 to 1993.

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