Van Meter Award

The Van Meter Award Lecture, established in 1930, recognizes outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland or related subjects. The award is given each year to an investigator who is not older than the age of 45 in the year of the award. The Van Meter award winner is kept secret until the time of the award lecture during the annual meeting. An honorarium and expenses are funded by support from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers. A Van Meter endowment contribution in memory of Jacob (Jack) Robbins has been given by Jean Robbins.

2023 Mark E. Zafereo
2022 Juan P. Brito Campana
2021 Angela Leung
2020 Nadia Schoenmakers
2019 Cari Kitahara
2018 Carmelo Nucera
2017 Megan R. Haymart
2016 Robin P. Peeters
2015 Takashi Yoshimura
2014 Christine Spitzweg
2013  Anne Cappola
2012  Antonio Di Cristofano
2011  Elizabeth N. Pearce
2010  Electron Kebebew
2009  Matthew Ringel
2008  Yun-Bo Shi
2007  Yuri Nikiforov
2006  Douglas Forrest
2005  Charis Eng
2004  Antonio Bianco
2003  Yaron Tomer
2002  Sissy M. Jhiang
2001   Evan Dale Abel
2000  Anthony Hollenberg
1999  Marla Berry
1998  Fredric Wondisford
1997  Peter Arvan
1996  Gregory A. Brent
1995  Stephen Usala
1994  Mitchell Lazar

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1993  J. Larry Jameson
1992  Margaret Shupnik
1991  Ronald M. Lechan
1990  Ronald J. Koenig
1989  Ronald M. Evans
1988  Jack L. Leonard
1987  Michael M. Kaplan
1986  William W. Chin
1985  Marvin C. Gershengorn
1984  Kenneth D. Burman
1983  J. Enrique Silva
1982  Basil Rapoport
1981  I. A. Kourides
1980  Jean H. Dussault
1979  Bruce D. Weintraub
1978  Wylie W. Vale
1977  Inder Chopra
1976  P. Reed Larsen
1975  Herbert H. Samuels
1974  Kenneth A. Woeber
1973  Martin I. Surks
1972  Robert D. Utiger
1971  Ira Pastan
1969  C.Y. Bowers
1969  A.V. Schally
1969  F. Enzmann
1969  J. Boler
1969  K. Folkers
1968  John Dunn
1967  Kenjiro Inoue

1965  Jack H. Oppenheimer
1964  Winton Tong
1963  Lewis E. Braverman
1962  Harold Edelhoch
1961  James B. Field
1960  Nicholas M. Alexander
1959  Takashi Yamada
1958  Duncan D. Adams
1957  Deborah Doniach
1956  Jameshed R. Tata
1955  Jacob Robbins
1954  Sam Kirkwood
1953  Belton A. Burrows
1952  Martin Sonenberg
1951  Isadore N. Rosenberg
1950  Joseph E. Rall
1949  William McK. Jefferies
1948  C.F. Hamilton
1947  E. DeRobertis
1946  Brown M. Dobyns
1942  Walter Mann
1942  Charles Leblond
1941  Asher Chapman
1940  Brien T. King
1939  T.L. Althausen
1936  Eduard Uhlenhuth
1934  M.A.B. Brazier
1933  Anne M. Heyman
1932  Donald McEachern
1931  Bruce Webster
1930  William F. Rienhoff , Jr.