The History of of AOTA Prizes: an Introduction
Since 1980, AOTA has awarded two prizes to distinguished scientists in the field of clinical or basic thyroid research who did his or her work in the Asia and Oceania region. At the beginning the Mallinckrodt Prize and the Otsuka Prize were given. (The Mallinckrodt Prize was later replaced by the Daiichi Prize when the sponsorship changed from Mallinckrodt Co. to Daiichi Radioisotope Laboratories Ltd. In 2005 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. withdrew the sponsorship and the prize name was changed to the AOTA Prize through the support of the AOTA office.)
Customarily, one prize was given to a Japanese and the other to a non-Japanese thyroidologist (Otsuka and Mallinckrodt Prizes, alternatingly). In this way, in 1980, the Otsuka Prize was given to a Japanese (Y. Shishiba of Tokyo, Japan) and the Mallinckrodt Prize to an Australian (D. Adams of Otago, Australia). At that point in 1982, the Otsuka Prize was given to an Australian (C. Eastman of Sydney, Australia)) and Mallinckrodt Prize to a Japanese (S. Nagataki of Nagasaki, Japan). This was the set-up took after notwithstanding when the prize sponsorships along these lines changed.
In 2007 the Nagataki Prize was set up as the successor of the AOTA Prize. The Nagataki Prize is supported by Dr. Shigenobu Nagataki and his partners at the Nagasaki University School of Medicine to be given to a non-Japanese thyroidologist who meets criteria distributed in the AOTA site. In 2009, the FUJIFILM Prize was set up set up of the Daiichi Prize. Both the Daiichi/FUJIFILM Prize and the Nagataki Prize are given amid the International Thyroid Congress (ITC) or AOTA gatherings. In these gatherings, the beneficiaries convey their Prize Lectures and get plaques of gratefulness and US$2,000 each. In the fourteenth ITC in Paris, France, the ITC Program Organizing Committee prescribed to have just a single Prize Lecture conveyed from each of the four Sister Societies (ATA, ETA, LATS and AOTA). In this manner, the FUJIFILM and Nagataki Prizes were joined into a solitary lectureship, paying little mind to the beneficiary’s nationality.
Qualification for the Prize
FUJIFILM Prize
This prize is awarded to a distinguished Japanese scientist who has been contributing to basic or clinical thyroidology. There are no age limits for the recipient of the Prize.
Nagataki Prize
This prize is awarded to a distinguished non-Japanese scientist working in the Asia and Oceania region and has been contributing to basic or clinical thyroidology. There are no age limits for the recipient of the Prize.
Past Prize Recipients
Mallinckrodt Prize (1980-1986)
Daiichi Prize (1989-2007)
FUJIFILM Prize (from 2009)
1980 at the 8th International Thyroid Congress in Sydney, Australia
Dr. D. Adams (Otago, Australia): “The pathogenesis of Graves’ disease”
1982 at the 2nd Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Tokyo, Japan
Dr. S. Nagataki (Nagasaki, Japan): “Pathogenic factors of Graves’ disease”
1985 at the 9th International Thyroid Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr. B.S. Hetzel (Adelaide, Australia): “Iodine deficiency, the thyroid, and the brain”
1986 at the 3rd Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. J. Konishi (Kyoto, Japan): “Role of thyrotropin-receptor antibodies in primary hypothyroidism
1989 at the 4th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Seoul, Korea
Dr. R.T.T. Young (Hong Kong): “Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis revisited”
1991 at the 10th International Thyroid Congress in The Hague, Netherlands
Dr. T. Onaya (Yamanashi, Japan): “Thyrotropin-inducible genes in experimental hyperplasia and neoplasia”
1993 at the 5th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Sydney, Australia
Dr. B.Y. Cho (Seoul, Korea): “Thyroid stimulation-blocking antibody and autoimmune atrophic thyroiditis”
1995 at the 11th International Thyroid Congress in Toronto, Canada
Dr. Y. Kondo (Maebashi, Japan): “G-protein-mediated mechanisms of the modulation of signal transduction pathways in thyroid cells”
1997 at the 6th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Osaka, Japan
Dr. S. C. Boyages (Sydney, Australia): “Iodine deficiency and brain”
2000 at the 12th International Thyroid Congress in Kyoto, Japan
Dr. Hisao Seo (Nagoya, Japan): “Redox regulation of thyroid transcription factors”
2003 at the 7th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Singapore
Dr. Bruce G. Robinson (Sydney, Australia): “Molecular determinants of thyroid cancer phenotype
2005 at the 13th International Thyroid Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Masatomo Mori (Maebashi, Japan): “Thyroid hormone receptor as a nuclear transcription
factor; clinical implications”
2007 at the 8th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Manila, Philippines
Dr. Hirotoshi Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan): “Negative regulation of TSH genes by the thyroid hormone & its receptors”
2009 at the 9th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Nagoya, Japan
Dr. Masanobu Yamada (………., Japan): “The pathology and management of central hypothyroidism”
2010 at the 14th International Thyroid Congress in Paris, France Dr. Takashi Akamizu (Wakayama, Japan): “Pathophysiology and pathogenesis of Graves’ disease”
Otsuka Prize (1980-2003)
AOTA Prize (2005)
Nagataki Prize (from 2007)
1980 at the 8th International Thyroid Congress in Sydney, Australia
Dr. Y. Shishiba (Tokyo, Japan): “Pathogenesis of thyrotoxic periodic paralysis”
1982 at the 2nd Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Tokyo, Japan
Dr. C. J. Eastman (Sydney, Australia): “The regulation of thyroid hormone receptors”
1985 at the 9th International Thyroid Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr. M. Irie (Tokyo, Japan): “Neonatal hypothyroid screening”
1986 at the 3rd Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. I. B. Hales (Sydney, Australia): “Controversies in the management of differentiated
adenocarcinoma of the thyroid”
1989 at the 4th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Seoul, Korea
Dr. N. Amino (Osaka, Japan): “Postpartum autoimmune thyroid syndrome”
1991 at the 10th International Thyroid Congress in The Hague, Netherlands
Dr. J. R. Stockigt (Melbourne, Australia): “Drug competition for specific thyroid hormone
binding sites”
1993 at the 5th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Sydney, Australia
Dr. K. Miyai (Osaka, Japan): “Congenital thyrotropin deficiency – discovery, molecular genetics and prevention”
1995 at the 11th International Thyroid Congress in Toronto, Canada
Dr. D. J. Topliss (Melbourne, Australia): “Factors influencing the cellular uptake of thyroid hormones”
1997 at the 6th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Osaka, Japan
Dr. T. Mori (Kyoto, Japan): “Autoimmune TSH receptor diseases: genetic backgrounds and
mechanism of the autoantibody production”
2000 at the 12th International Thyroid Congress in Kyoto, Japan
Dr. Annie Kung (Hong Kong, China): “Thyroid autoantibodies and pregnancy”
2003 at the 7th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Singapore
Dr. S. Yamashita (Nagasaki, Japan): “Molecular targeting gene therapy for thyroid cancer
2005 at the 13th International Thyroid Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Minho Shong (Daejeon, Korea): “Opening another window into genomic instabilities in thyroid cancer”
2007 at the 8th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Manila, Philippines Dr. Daphne Khoo (Singapore): “The role of thyroid autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of Graves’ ophthalmopathy”
2009 at the 9th Congress of the Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association in Nagoya, Japan Dr. Fereidoun Azizi (Tehran, Iran): “Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy & Lactation”
2010 at the 14th International Thyroid Congress in Paris, France Dr. Takashi Akamizu (Wakayama, Japan): “Pathophysiology and pathogenesis of Graves’ disease”