Announcing the Winners of the ISN 2023 Awards: Excellence in Kidney Care and Research
07 Dec 2023
The Alfred Newton Richards Award recognizes outstanding basic research in kidney-related fields. This year’s winner, Professor Carol Pollock, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. She comments, “I am incredibly honored to be the recipient of this award.”
Professor Pollock holds several awards, including the 2014 Ministerial Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research and the 2021 Haiyan Wang Award from the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology. She received a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research from the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Supervision and was made Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in 2021 for her distinguished service to nephrology.
Professor Pollock has over 440 publications published in basic research and clinical medicine and over 29,000 citations. She is an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and was recognized as a “Distinguished Professor” by the University of Sydney.
Professor Pollock has held several leadership roles within the kidney community at large and ISN, including Scientific Chair of the World Congress of Nephrology in 2013.
She is currently chair of Kidney Health Australia, the New South Wales Bureau of Health Information and the Health Advisory Committee for Lineaire Projects, and deputy chair of the Australian Organ, Tissue and Transplant Authority. She sits on the scientific advisory committee of Pharmaxis Ltd., is a director at Certa Therapeutics and the Photobionics Institute and an ambassador of Business Events Sydney.
The recipients will be formally recognized at the ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2023, from March 30 – April 2, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Each of the winners will present a scientific talk in a dedicated award session:
- Alfred Newton Richards Award
Friday, March 31, 2023 I 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. - Roscoe Robinson Award
Saturday, April 1, 2023 I 11:45 am – 12:45 p.m. - Lillian Jean Kaplan Prize
Saturday, April 1, 2023 I 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
