Professor Howard Stevens was awarded the Chiroscience Industrial Achievement Award 1999. Having moved into academia only five years ago, Professor Stevens currently holds a chair at Strathclyde university as Pfizer professor of exploratory drug delivery.
In a career spaning almost three decades, he has worked in the United Kingdom and Europe at companies that have included multinationals such as Boots and E.R. Squibb & Sons and drug delivery companies including Polysystems and Sherer DDS.
Professor Stevens is a Fellow of both the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Chiroscience Industrial Achievement award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to either the advancement of pharmaceutical sciences or services to the pharmaceutical industry.
This year's winner of the Glaxo Wellcome International Achievement Award was Professor William Charman of Monash university, Melbourne, Australia. He first graduated from the university in 1981 and returned to his roots by accepting a senior lectureship at the Victoria college of pharmacy at Monash university.
Presenting the award, Dr Rosemary Leak said that Professor Charman had made a primary contribution to the pharmaceutical sciences by the exploration of the manner in which lipids, post-prandial drug administration and formulation strategies could enhance the bioavailability of lipophilic drugs.
The Glaxo Wellcome International Achievement Award is given to an individual who has demonstrated, through published work over the past three years, a substantial advancement in the application of scientific knowledge within the pharmaceutical sciences.