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2021 recipients
3M Company
Recipients: Robert (Bob) Asmus, James (Jim) DiZio, Dan Duan, Donald (Don) Peterson, Daniel (Dan) Popko,
Maria Ruiz, Deb Schwab, Terry Smorch, Zhicheng (George) Tian, Kheng Vang, Ying Zhang
AbbVie
Recipients: Milan Bruncko, Vincent Chan, Alan Christesen, Hong Ding, Steven Elmore, Timothy Grieme,
Lisa Hasvold, Yi-Yin Ku, Aaron Kunzer, Mathew Mulhern, Chang Park, Cheol-Min Park, Yu-Ming Pu,
Saul Rosenberg, Xiaohong Song, Andrew Souers, Gerald Sullivan, Zhi-Fu Tao, Le Wang, Xilu Wang, Michael Wendt
AstraZeneca/Bristol Myers Squibb
Recipients: Elisabeth Björk, David Boulton, Prashant Deshpande, Bruce Ellsworth, Karen From,
Nayyar Iqbal, Anna Maria Langkilde, Per Lindblom, Peggy McCann, Wei Meng, Daniele Paone, Philip Sher,
William Washburn, Gang Wu

Merck & Co., Inc.
Recipients: Marc Bastiaansen, Parimal Desai, Stephen Farrand, Kevin Gurney, Brad Holstine, Beth Junker,
Sunitha Kandula, Thomas Linden, Nguyen Ly, Gargi Maheshwari, Athena Nagi, Chakravarthy Narasimham,
Dennis Rendeiro, Daisy Richardson, David Roush, Patricia Rowicki, Mohammed Shameem, Manoj Sharma,
Markus Tanner, Scott Tobler, Nihal Tugcu
Novartis
Recipients: Tom Blacklock, Reynalda DeJesus, Clive Diefenbacher, Lili Feng, Michael Girgis, Sven Godtfredsen,
Bin Hu, Piotr Karpinski, Gary Ksander, Yugang Liu, Mahavir Prashad, Paul Sutton, Andrew Yuan
Pfizer
Recipients: Simon Bailey, Benjamin Burke, Michael Collins, Jingrong Jean Cui, Judith Deal, Bob Dugger,
Mingying He, Jacqui Hoffman, Robert Hoffman, Peter Huang, Ted Johnson, Robert Kania, John Kath, Phuong Le,
Bryan Li, Michele McTigue, Sebastien Monfette, Cindy Palmer, Paul Richardson, Peter Rose, Neal Sach
2021 Executive Speeches
3M Company: Kenneth Hanley, Vice President of Research and Development
AbbVie: Steve Davidsen, Vice President of Oncology Discovery
AstraZeneca: Elisabeth Björk, Senior Vice President & Head of Late-Stage Development, Cardiovascular,
Renal and Metabolism
Bristol Myers Squibb: William Washburn, Retired Senior Research Fellow
Merck & Co., Inc.: Sanat Chattopadhyay, Executive Vice President & President, Merck Manufacturing Division
Novartis: Karin Briner, Vice President, Global Discovery Chemistry
Pfizer: Jennifer Lafontaine, Vice President, Head of Oncology Medicinal Chemistry
Closing Remarks
Lisa Houston, ACS Board of Directors, American Chemical Society

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