Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher Award
The Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher Award was created through an endowment for the purpose of providing an award to recognize distinguished leadership in the field of androgen excess and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) research. The award supports the vision of the Society as an international leader in fostering the highest quality research in the field of androgen excess and PCOS research. Awardees are selected by an impartial committee. Typically only one award is provided yearly.
Ricardo Azziz is a reproductive endocrinologist and internationally recognized researchers who founded the AEPCOS society.
Ray Rogers
2025
Adelaide University, Australia
Professor Ray Rodgers is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (1984) and undertook a post-doctoral fellowships at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (1984-1986), and at Prince Henry’s Institute for Medical Research (1987-1989). He has been a QEII fellow, a BBSRC fellow and a NHMRC fellow (1993-2016). He was recently the Interim Director of the Robinson Research Institute (2021-2023) and is Convenor or Reproductive Health Australia (2021 to present). He conducts largely basic research into reproductive biology, focusing on the mammalian ovary and its endocrine functions. His team have been researching the aetiology of polycystic ovary syndrome since 2007.
Past Recipients
o 2024 Professor Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
o 2023 Professor Daniel Dumesic, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA
o 2022 Professor Vasantha Padmanabhan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
o 2021 Professor David Abbott, University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, United States
o 2020 Professor Richard Legro, Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA
o 2019 Professor Andrea Dunaif, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
o 2018 Professor Stephen Franks, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
o 2017 Professor Rogerio Lobo, Columbia University United States
o 2016 Professor Didier Dewailly, Lille University Hospital France
o 2015 Professor Robert Norman, University of Adelaide Australia
Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence Award
The Walter Futterweit Clinical Research Excellence Award recognizes individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to education, research and/or practice in androgen excess disorders, including PCOS, over a sustained period of time, through scholarly endeavors, teaching excellence, educational innovation, passionate advocacy, and/or dedicated service. Typically, one award is provided annually.
Walter Futterweit was medical endocrinologist at Mount Sinai in New York City and was Past President of AE-PCOS society
Jeff Chang
2025
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Past Recipients
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- Dr. Anuja Dokras, 2024, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Dr. Zi-Jiang Chen, 2023, Shandong University, China
- Dr. Bulent Yildiz, 2022, Hacettepe University of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey
- Dr. Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis 2021, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- Dr. Helena Teede, 2020, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
- Dr. Hector Escobar-Morreale, 2019, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
- Dr. Enrico Carmina, 2018, University of Palermo Medical School, Italy
- Dr. Walter Futterweit, 2017 The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai United States
AZZIZ-BAUMGARTNER FAMILY EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATORS AWARDS
The Azziz-Baumgartner Family Early Career Investigator Awards were created through an endowment for the purpose of providing awards for young investigators presenting original work at the AE-PCOS Society's Annual Meetings. The award supports the vision of the Society to foster and support the development of young investigators in the field androgen excess and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) research. Awardees are selected by an impartial committee from all abstracts submitted for consideration to the Annual Meetings. You must be a member of the AE-PCOS Society to be eligible for the awards. Typically two awards are provided yearly.
Abbey Kalay
2025
Cornell University, USA
Tina Gorsek Sparovec
2025
Karolina Institute, Sweden
Past Recipients
o 2024 Snigdha Alur-Gupta, University Of Pennsylvania, USA
o 2024 Lena Luyckx, University of Oulu, Finland
o 2023 Mauro Silva, Harvard Medical School, USA
o 2023 Thais P. Roche, University of Birmingham, U.K.
o 2022 Noel Yh Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, P. R. China
o 2022 Heidi Vanden Brink, Texas A&M University, United States
o 2021 Li Meng, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
o 2021 Aisha Sati, University of Otago,Dunedin, New Zealand
o 2020 Carolyn Cesta, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
o 2020 Mamaru Awoke, Monash University, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
o 2020 Tiantian Zhu, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
o 2019 Valentina Rodrigues Paris, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
o 2019 Loes Moolhuijsen, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
o 2018 Geranne Jiskoot, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
o 2018 Meri Maija Ollila, University of Oulu, Finland
o 2017 Noel Yat Hey Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
o 2017 Pedro Torres, San Diego State University United States
o 2016 Dr. Michael Bertoldo, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of New South Wales Australia
o 2016 Dr. Nadira Sultana Kakoly, PhD Candidate Monash University Australia
Verity and AE-PCOS Poster Award
Victoria Bailey
2025 AE-PCOS Award
Michigan State University
Tess Cherlin
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Past Recipients
2024 Donna Vine
2024 Jillian Tay
Waterloo Foundation Award
Rosie Bauer
2023
Northwestern University, USA
Congru Li
2023
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Mauro Silva
2023
Harvard Medical School, USA