1. The FUJIFILM Prize
This prize is awarded to an established Japanese scientist who has been contributing to basic or clinical thyroidology. There are no age limits for the recipients of the prize.
2. The Nagataki Prize
This prize is awarded to an established non-Japanese scientist who works 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.
*The history of two AOTA prizes
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, then, the Mallinckrodt Prize was replaced by the Daiichi Prize since the sponsor of the prize was changed from Mallinckrodt Co. to Daiichi Radioisotope Laboratories Ltd. In 2005 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. withdrew the sponsorship. Then, the prize name was changed from the Otsuka Prize to the AOTA prize that was supported by AOTA office. In 2006 the Nagataki prize that succeeds to the AOTA prize has been founded. The Nagataki Prize is sponsored by Dr. Nagataki and his followers of Nagasaki University, School of Medicine. Both the Daiichi and the Nagataki prizes are given when either AOTA meeting or International Thyroid Congress (ITC) is held. In these meetings, the recipients are requested to give prize lectures and receive the Prize Plaque and US$2,000 each.
Traditionally, one prize was given to Japanese and the other to a non-Japanese thyroidologist, Otsuka and Mallinckrodt Prize alternatively. For example Otsuka Prize was given to a Japanese and Mallinckrodt to an Australian (non-Japanese) thyroidologist in 1980, then, at the following meeting in 1982, Otsuka Prize was given to an Australian (non-Japanese) and Mallinckrodt Prize to a Japanese thyroidologist. Now, the AOTA office has decided to fix the pattern, i.e. Daiichi prize to a Japanese and Nagataki Prize that replaces AOTA prize to a non-Japanese thyroidologist.
*Past recipient:
The Otsuka Prize
1980 The 8th International Thyroid Congress in Sydney
Dr. Y. Shishiba (Tokyo, Japan) : Pathogenesis of thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
1982 The 2nd Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Tokyo
Dr. D. J. Eastman (Sydney, Australia) :
The regulation of thyroid hormone receptors
1985 The 9th International Thyroid Congress in Sao Paulo
Dr. M. Irie (Tokyo, Japan) : Neonatal hypothyroid screening
1986 The 3rd Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Bangkok
Dr. I. B. Hales (Sydney, Australia): Controversies in the management of differentiated
adenocarcinoma of
the thyroid@
1989 The 4th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Seoul
Dr. N. Amino (Osaka, Japan) : Postpartum autoimmune thyroid syndrome
1991 The 10th International Thyroid Congress in The Hague
Dr. J. R. Stockigt (Melbourne, Australia) :Drug Competition for specific thyroid hormone
binding sites
1993 The 5th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Sydney
Dr. K. Miyai (Osaka, Japan): Congenital thyrotropin deficiency - Discovery, molecular genetics
and
prevention
1995 The 11th International Thyroid Congress in Toronto
Dr. D. J. Topliss (Melbourne, Australia):
Factors influencing the cellular uptake of thyroid hormones
1997 The 6th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Osaka
Dr. T. Mori (Kyoto, Japan): Autoimmune TSH receptor diseases: Genetic backgrounds and
mechanism of the autoantibody producions
2000 The 12th International Thyroid Congress in Kyoto
Dr. Annie W-C. Kung (Hong Kong, China) : Thyroid autoantibodies and pregnancy
2003 The 7th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Singapore
Dr. S. Yamashita (Nagasaki, Japan) :
Molecular targeting gene therapy for thyroid cancer
The AOTA Prize
2005 The 13th International Thyroid Congress in Buenos Aires
Dr. Minho Shong (Seoul, Korea): Opening another window into genomic instabilities in thyroid
cancer.
The Nagataki Prize
2007 The 8th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Manila
Dr. Daphne Khoo (Singapore): The role of thyroid autoantibodies in the
pathogenesis of Graves' ophthalmopathy
2009 The 9th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Nagoya
Dr. Fereidoun Azizi: Thyroid disease in pregnancy and lactation
The Mallinckrodt Prize
1980 The 8th International Thyroid Congress in Sydney
Dr. D. D. Adams (Otago, Australia) : The pathogenesis of Graves' disease
1982 The 2nd Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Tokyo
Dr. S. Nagataki (Nagasaki, Japan) : Pathogenic factors of Graves' disease
1985 The 9th International Thyroid Congress in Sao Paulo
Dr. B.S. Hetzel (Adelaide, Australia) : Iodine deficiency, the thyroid, and the brain
1986 The 3rd Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Bangkok
Dr. J. Konishi (Kyoto, Japan) : Role of thyrotropin-receptor antibodies in primary hypothyroidism
The Daiichi/FUJIFILM Prize
1989 The 4th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Seoul
Dr. R.T.T. Young (Hong Kong) : Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis revisited
1991 The 10th International Thyroid Congress in the Hague
Dr. T. Onaya (Yamanashi, Japan) : Thyrotropin-inducible genes in experimental hyperplasia and
neoplasia
1993 The 5th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Sydney
Dr. B.Y. Cho (Seoul, Korea) : Thyroid stimulation blocking antibody and autoimmune atrophic
thyroiditis
1995 The 11th International Thyroid Congress in Toronto
Dr. Y. Kondo (Maebashi, Japan) : G-protein-mediated mechanisms of the modulation of signal
transduction pathways in thyroid cells
1997 The 6th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Osaka
Dr. S. C. Boyages (Sydney, Australia) : Iodine deficiency and brain
2000 The 12th International Thyroid Congress in Kyoto
Dr. Hisao Seo (Nagoya, Japan) : Redox Regulation of Thyroid Transcription Factors
2003 The 7th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Singapore
Dr. Bruce G. Robinson (Sydney, Australia) : Molecular determinants of thyroid cancer phenotype
2005 The 13th International Thyroid Congress in Buenos Aires
Dr. Masatomo Mori (Maebashi, Japan) : Thyroid hormone receptor as a nuclear transcription
factor; Clinical implications
2007 The 8th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Manila
Dr. Hirotoshi Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan): Negative regulation of TSH genes by the thyroid hormone & its receptors
2009 The 9th Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association Congress in Nagoya
Dr. Masanobu Yamada: The pathology and management of central hypothyroidism