News Archive
February 19, 2025
Quality of Medicines Award 2025 announced.
The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) jointly award the the Quality of Medicines prize 2025 for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of optimizing and ensuring the quality of drugs. We would like to support fundamental investigations into the quality of drugs on the market as well as innovative concepts to improve them.
The DPhG President and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the FFQM decide on the award based on a recommendation from the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board. The award is associated with prize money of €2,000 and will be presented at the DPhG annual conference in 2025 in Freiburg.
Applications can be submitted electronically to the DPhG office (info@dphg.de) or to the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (info@frankfurt-foundation.org) until July 15, 2025.
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jaehde, Präsident der DPhG
Prof. Dr. Henning Blume, Vorstandsvorsitzender der FFQM
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March 16, 2024
Pearls of Bioeqivalence Award 2024
The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS) honor outstanding contributions to the optimization of concept, design and evaluation of bioequivalence with the „Pearls of Bioequivalence Award“.
The decision on the prize winner is based on a proposal made by an internationally composed, independent prize committee of experts from the pharmaceutical sciences.
This year’s prize will be presented at the Global Bioequivalence Harmonization Initiative (GBHI) conference on April 16 in Rockville/MD by the Chairman of the foundation’s Board, Professor Henning Blume.
March 5, 2024
Quality of Medicines Award 2024 announced.
The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) jointly award the the Quality of Medicines prize 2024 for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of optimizing and ensuring the quality of drugs. We would like to support fundamental investigations into the quality of drugs on the market as well as innovative concepts to improve them.
Applications can be submitted electronically to the DPhG office (info@dphg.de) or to the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (info@frankfurt-foundation.org) until July 15, 2024.
April 22, 2023
Hans-Günter-Schäfer Award 2023
This year’s winner of the Hans Günter Schäfer Award is Dr. Robin Michelet (Free University of Berlin). The prize, which is endowed with 1000 euros, is donated by the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM).
The award was presented on April 21 at this year’s PKPD expert meeting in Nauen, organized by the Working Group for Applied Human Pharmacology (AGAH). Past President of AGAH, Dr. Andreas Kovar, and the chairman of the FFQM, Prof. Dr. Henning Blume, congratulate Dr. Michelet.
April 7, 2023
Quality of Medicines Award 2023 announced
The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) jointly award the the Quality of Medicines prize 2023 for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of optimizing and ensuring the quality of drugs. We would like to support fundamental investigations into the quality of drugs on the market as well as innovative concepts to improve them.
Applications can be submitted electronically to the DPhG office (info@dphg.de) or to the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (info@frankfurt-foundation.org) until July 15, 2023.
March 5, 2023
Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 goes to Prof. Benet
The Board of Directors of the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines, together with its Scientific Advisory Committee, has decided to honor Professor Leslie Z. Benet, PhD from the University of California San Francisco with the Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023.
This recognizes Professor Benet’s extraordinary achievements in the field of pharmaceutical science and his outstanding contributions to improving the quality and effectiveness of medicines. As a result of his scientific work, Leslie Benet has received numerous awards throughout his scientific career as well as honorary doctorates from nine universities
The award ceremony will take place on May 15, 2023, as part of a scientific congress organized by EUFEPS (European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences) on the draft of the first bioequivalence guideline of the International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) in Frankfurt am Main.
October 25, 2022
Paxlovid stability confirmed
The results of the stability studies initiated by the FFQM on Paxlovid tablets available on the market have now been published in Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung No. 42 of October 20th, 2022, p. 3708-9. The content was determined by high performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometer detection. The mean content of nirmatrelvir was determined to be 100.3%, i.e. there is no evidence of any relevant degradation of the active substance. The investigations were carried out at the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nuremberg-Heroldsberg.
June 21, 2022
Prof. Henning Blume was honored with the Presidential Distinction Award 2022 of EUFEPS
Prof. Henning Blume was honored with the Presidential Distinction Award 2022 of EUFEPS
Prof. Henning Blume, chairman of the board of the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines, was honored with the Presidential Distinction Award 2022 of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS). The ceremony was held on the EUFEPS Annual Meeting 2022 which took place in Leiden from 1 – 3 June combined with the Dutch Medicines Days organized by FIGON (Federation for Innovative Drug Research).
The award was given to Henning Blume for outstanding achievement in exceptional leadership, dedication, and support to the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (https://www.eufeps.org/start.html).
March 11, 2022
Quality of Medicines Award announced
The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) jointly award the the Quality of Medicines prize 2022 for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of optimizing and ensuring the quality of drugs.
We would like to support fundamental investigations into the quality of drugs on the market as well as innovative concepts to improve them.
Applications can be submitted electronically to the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (info@frankfurt-foundation.org) until July 15, 2022.
October 1, 2021
Dr. Oliver Scherf-Clavel received the "Quality of Medicines Award"
The „Preis zur Förderung der Arzneimittelqualität“ was awarded for the first time in October. The award winner is junior professor Dr. Oliver Scherf-Clavel.
