Scientific Achievement Awards
FDA plays a pivotal role in translating scientific and technological breakthroughs into medical cures and new tools to ensure food safety. We do this by supporting novel approaches to developing and evaluating our regulated products.
But our efforts to speed safe and effective new treatments to people in need wouldn't be possible without our highly skilled scientists.
FDA issues our Scientific Achievement Awards each year to recognize our scientists who have made outstanding contributions to advancing regulatory science.
FDA gives 20 awards to both individuals and groups. All FDA scientists who have demonstrated exemplary performance in their assigned scientific duties are eligible. The individual or group is nominated for a completed body of work that was initiated and completed while the nominee was employed by FDA. Click on the links below to view the winners from 2009 to present.
Individual Award Recipients
- Excellence in Data and Computational Science (formerly Data Science)
- Excellence in Laboratory Science, Engineering, or Analytical Science (formerly Laboratory Science)
- Excellence in Review Science
- Lifetime Achievement
- Outstanding Emerging Investigator (formerly Junior Investigator)
- Outstanding New Reviewer
- Outstanding Senior Contributing Scientist (formerly Support Scientist)
- Outstanding Emerging Contributing Scientist (formerly Junior Support Scientist)
- Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science
Group Award Recipients
- Excellence in Data and Computational Science–GROUP (formerly Data Science)
- Excellence in Laboratory Science, Engineering, or Analytical Science–GROUP (formerly Laboratory Science)
- Excellence in Review Science–GROUP
- Outstanding Intercenter Scientific Collaboration–GROUP
- Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science–GROUP
- Excellence in Scientific Response to a Public Health Emergency–GROUP
Chief Scientist Publication Awards
- Chief Scientist Publication Award for Laboratory Science
- Chief Scientist Publication Award for Translational or Applied Science
- Chief Scientist Publication Award for Methodology
- Chief Scientist Publication Award to an Emerging Scientist (formerly Junior Scientist)
- Chief Scientist Publication Award for Significant Outreach