Michael J. Welch, PhD Award

2024 Michael J. Welch, PhD Award Winner

The Michael J. Welch, PhD Award was created as a means of recognizing individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of radiopharmaceutical sciences, have been involved in mentoring students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty, and have been involved in community service to the field of radiopharmaceutical chemistry and molecular imaging. The Michael J. Welch, PhD Award carries with it an award of $1,000.  This award is funded through an endowed gift given to the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (ERF) by the Dr. Michael J. Welch Foundation in memoriam of Professor Michael J. Welch, PhD, who passed away in 2012.

This year's award recipient is Suzanne Lapi, PhD, FSNMMI.

Suzanne Lapi, PhD, FSNMMI

Previous Michael J. Welch, PhD Award Winners:

2023 - Sally Schwarz, MS, RPh, BCNP, FAPhA

2022 - Weibo Cai, PhD, FSNMMI

2021 - Victor Pike, PhD

2020 - Henry VanBrocklin, PhD

2019 - Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD

2018 - Robert H. Mach, PhD

2017 - Jason Lewis, PhD

2016 - Robert F. Dannals, MA, PhD

2015 - Martin W. Brechbiel, PhD,

2014 - Michael R. Kilbourn, PhD

2013 - Robert Jerome Nickles, PhD

2012 - Carolyn J. Anderson, PhD

2011 - Thomas Ruth, PhD

2010 - Mark M. Goodman, PhD

2009 - Wynn Volkert, PhD