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ICH Award<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t
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The scientific and technical experts who serve on ICH working groups play an essential and valued role in the development of ICH harmonised guidelines.<\/p>

The ICH Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harmonisation for Better Health recognises experts who have played important and sustained leadership roles in ICH Working Groups, supporting ICH\u2019s mission to promote public health through international harmonisation of technical requirements that support safe, effective and high-quality medicines.<\/p>

This award is given by the ICH Assembly every two years following a nomination process. The next awards will be presented in November 2027.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n

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2025 Awardee<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Dr. Johannes Bl\u00fcmel<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
\n \t\t\tMHLW\/PMDA, Japan<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr. Yukio Hiyama<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
\n \t\t\tJPMA<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr. Masayuki Mishima<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
\n \t\t\tEFPIA<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr. Lutz Mueller<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
\n \t\t\tFDA, United States <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr. Joel Welch<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n
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2023 Awardee<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Dr. Jan-Willem van der Laan<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Christina Winter<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Lisa M. LaVange<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Shigeru Hisada<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Akihiko Hirose<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. William W. Gregory<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n
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2022 Awardee<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Dr. Jean-Louis Robert<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Fergus Sweeney<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Mark A. Gray<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Ellis Unger<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
\n \t\t\tHealth Canada, Canada<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr. Anthony Ridgway<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Osamu Komiyama <\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Tomonori Nakagawa<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Masamitsu Honma<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Mutsuhiro Ikuma<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Kaori Shinagawa<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Moheb Nasr<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Frank Sistare<\/h3>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Home \/ News & Events ICH Award The scientific and technical experts who serve on ICH working groups play an essential and valued role in the development of ICH harmonised guidelines. The ICH Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harmonisation for Better Health recognises experts who have played important and sustained leadership roles in ICH Working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/3117"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}