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November 13, 2021
Lifetime Achievement Award of the foundation: Professor Emeritus Dr. Josè Morais, University Lisbon awarded
In a ceremony on November 13, 2021, the Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) awarded the „Lifetime Achievement Award“ for the first time for exceptional scientific contributions to the optimization of drug quality. With this prize, the special merits of the award winner Professor Emeritus Dr. Josè Augusto Guimarães Morais, University of Lisbon, were recognized for the development of regulatory criteria for the comparative assessment of the bioavailability of systemic drugs. As a member of the European Approval Commission CPMP/CHMP and chairman of an EU expert group, Professor Morais made significant contributions to the introduction of guidelines on bioavailability and bioequivalence at EU level. „We are very pleased that we can award the prize to such an outstanding scientist,“ explains the founder and chairman of the foundation, Professor Dr. Henning Blume, who has been committed to promoting drug quality himself for many years.
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.
