WORLDSymposium 2015 Award for Innovation and Accomplishment was presented to Dr. Stephen C. Groft. Dr. Stephen is a public servant for more than four decades and a pioneer at the Office of Rare Diseases Research. More details.
WORLDSymposium 2016 Award for Innovation and Accomplishment was presented to Dr. Emil Kakkis. Dr. Kakkis is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical where he leads a drug development team working on multiple rare and ultra‐rare disease treatments. More details.
WORLDSymposium 2017 Roscoe O. Brady Award was received by Konrad Sandhoff, PhD for Innovation and Accomplishment on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Konrad Sandhoff completed his PhD in biochemistry in Munich. After early research in Munich, Israel and the USA, he became Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bonn in 1979. More details.
Mark E. Haskins, VMD, PHD Received the 2018 Roscoe O. Brady Award for Innovation and Accomplishment on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. Dr. Haskins has a career that spans over 40 years, from his beginning as a NIH Medical Genetics Trainee in 1975 working on MPS VI, through his appointment as Professor Emeritus in 2014. More details.
Danilo A. Tagle, PhD, MS received the 2019 Roscoe O. Brady Award for Innovation and Accomplishment. Danilo A. Tagle, PhD, MS, is associate director for special initiatives at NCATS. He also recently served as acting director of the NCATS Office of Grants Management and Scientific Review and currently serves as executive secretary to the NCATS Advisory Council and Cures Acceleration Network Review Board. More details.
WORLDSymposium 2020 Roscoe O. Brady Award was received by John F. Crowley, MD for Innovation and Accomplishment on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. John F. Crowley is the Chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, a global biotechnology company focusing on developing treatments for rare genetic diseases. More details.
WORLDSymposium 2021 Roscoe O. Brady Award was received by Ellen Sidransky, MD for Innovation and Accomplishment on Monday, February 8, 2021. Dr. Ellen Sidransky is the Branch Chief of the Medical Genetics Branch and is a pediatrician and geneticist in the National Human Genome Research Institute at National Institutes of Health (NIH). View details.
WORLDSymposium 2022 Roscoe O. Brady Award was received by Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD for Innovation and Accomplishment on Monday, February 7, 2022 Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD, is the David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. More details.
WORLDSymposium 2023 Roscoe O. Brady Award was received by William A. Gahl, MD, PhD for Innovation and Accomplishment on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. This was followed by Dr. Gahl’s scientific presentation Pursuing Advances in Rare and Undiagnosed DiseasesMore details.
WORLDSymposium 2024 Roscoe O. Brady Award was received by Elsa Shapiro, PhD for Innovation and Accomplishment on Monday, February 5, 2024, followed by a scientific presentation by Dr. Shapiro. More details.