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It is the most important task of the SSPhS to actively promote the Pharmaceutical Sciences, also by honouring persons from academia and industry for their merits in this wide field of research and general actitivities.
Therefore the Swiss artist Willy Engel, Thun, has been asked to create the Reichstein-Medal.
This valuable token is supposed to highlight the merits of the Swiss chemist and nobel price winner
We are proud that we were able to give this award to two further Swiss nobel price winners, although our appreciaton equally extends to non-academical persons of merit from Switzerland and abroad.
We anticipate that we will be given the opportunity to expand our little gallery of the Reichstein-Medal winners by many further persons of merit.
Medal winner of the year 1994
Prof. Dr. William I. Higuchi
is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah. He has graduated more than 100 Ph.D.students and is worldwide known because he has authored more than 400 scientific papers and book chapters, has edited the periodical "International Journal of Pharmaceutics and his leadership in drug delivery. Dr. Higuchi is world reknown for his rigorous scientific contributions in developing mechanistic models of biologically relevant processes.
. . . more info (Lipocine) : (bioscience.utah)
Medal winner of the year 1997
Prof. Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel
Professor for experimental immunology at the university of Zurich and director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology has been rewarded, together with the Australian immunologist Peter Doherty, with the 1996 nobel price for medicin. Their discovery, how the immune systems detects virus infected cells is considered to be of trendsetting importance for the clinical medicine and allows the pharmaceutical sciences to develop entirely new vaccines.
. . . more info (Uni Zurich)
Medal winner of the year 2000
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Richard R. Ernst
has been awarded the Nobel Price in Chemistry in 1991 for a radical improvement of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, therewith creating a powerful diagnostic tool in medicine. After receiving his Ph.D. in Technical Sciences in 1962 from the Swiss Federal  Institute  of Technology in Zurich, he worked five years in California and returned 1972 to the ETH, where he became full professor 1976.
. . . more info (ETH) : (Boston_Globe)
Medal winner of the year 2002
Werner Glatt
Founder an honorary president of the Glatt group of companies, for his excellence as entrepreneur and for his cooperation with universities promoting Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Medal winner of the year 2005
Jean-Pierre Lorent
For the first time the Reichstein medal has been awarded for outstanding pharmaceutical services. J.P. Lorent has in the past totally committed himself to implement the ideas of the founders of the Swiss Toxicological Information Centre, which is nowadays internationally recognized for his free toxicological service to anyone enquiring, such having saved numerous lives during its foundation. The excellent reputation of the Tox Centre today has also been achieved by the modest, but the systematic and persevering work of J.P. Laurent.
. . . more info (www.toxi.ch)
 
The Swiss Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences SGPhW
has nominated the following personalities for their outstanding contribution to the advancement
of Pharmaceutical Sciences as "Fellows of SGPhW":
Prof. Dr. Michel Baron
Ecole des Mines Albi-Carmaux
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Brenneisen
University of Berne, Berne
Dr. Michel Buchmann
pharmaSuisse
Prof. Dr. Isidor Caraballo
University of Seville
Prof. Dr. Eric Doelker
Université de Genève
Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers
First President of SGPhW ( 1993-1994)
Collegium Helveticum (ETHZ and University of Zurich), Zürich
Michael Flück
Armeeapotheke, Ittingen
Dr. Bruno Galli
Novartis Pharma AG, Basel
Prof. Dr. Robert Gurny
Université de Genève
Prof. Dr. Ajaz S. Hussain
Sandoz Ltd., Princeton, U.S.A.
Prof. Dr. Yoshiaki Kawashima
Aichin Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan
PD Dr. Stephan Marrer
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel
Prof. Dr. Natalia V. Menshutina
D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moskau
Prof. Dr. Marcel Mesnil
Schweizerischer Apothekerverband, Bern
Dr. Christine Moll
Novartis Pharma Ltd., Basel
Dr. Heinz Moll
Armeeapotheke, Ittingen
Dr. Claudia Reinke
MedSciences, Basel
Prof. Dr. Otto Sticher
President of SGPhW 1995-2001
ETHZ, Zürich
Dr. Erich Sturzenegger
Novartis Pharma AG, Basel