The American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) has long recognized excellence in scientific research in the pharmaceutical sciences with several prestigious awards. This year APhA, through its Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APRS), recognized the following scientists for their significant contributions to the expansion of our knowledge in the pharmaceutical sciences.
The Justin L. Powers Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical Analysis was established in 1961 to recog nize and encourage outstanding achievement in the fields of bioanalytical and pharmaceutical analysis. The recipient of the 1990 award sponsored by the APhA Foundation was Lee Timothy Grady, Ph.D., Director of the Drug Standards Division of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. Dr. Grady received his B.S. (pharmacy) and Ph.D. (pharmaceutical chemistry) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include public standards processes, drugs in complex matrixes, packaging materials, chromatography, drug metabolism, dissolution, and chemical purity. His research has led to 50 publications. Dr. Grady is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has served as an expert on two advisory bodies of the World Health Organization, and as a temporary advisor to the Pan American Health Organization. The Ebert Prize, established in 1873, recognizes the author(s1 of the best original scientific report of a medicinal substance published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the preceding year. The 1990 award was presented for the paper "Transdermal Iontophoretic Drug Delivery: Mechanistic Analysis and Application to Polypeptide Delivery", which appeared in the