PVRI Awards

These annual awards are given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Pulmonary Hypertension (PH). They celebrate notable achievements made by special individuals across the globe and are awarded at our Annual Congresses.

The PVRI Lifetime Achievement Award

This prestigious Award is given annually at the PVRI Annual Congress to a senior PH investigator or clinician who has made direct and substantive contributions to the PH world and, ideally, to the PVRI. Many of our past winners have expressed the huge honour of receiving this Award. 

Award winners

• 2024 Martin Wilkins, UK
• 2022 Joanna Pepke-Zaba, UK 
• 2020 Gérald Simonneau, France 
• 2019 Paul Corris, UK 
• 2018 John Newman, USA 
• 2017 Ghazwan Butrous, UK 
• 2016 Lewis Rubin, USA 
• 2015 Stuart Rich, USA 
• 2014 Ken Weir, USA
• 2013 Werner Seeger

The PVRI Achievement Award

The PVRI Achievement Award is given annually at the PVRI Congress to one or more mid-career PVRI members who have made a significant contribution to basic or clinical research. 

Award winners

• 2022 Yuriy Sirenko, Ukraine & Adam Torbicki, Poland
• 2019 Bradley Maron, USA, Aaron Shefras, UK, Carmine Dario Vizza, Italy & Stefano Ghio, Italy 
• 2018 Martin Wilkins, UK 
• 2016 Nick Morrell, UK 
• 2015 Qadar Pasha, India 
• 2014 Chen Wang, China 
• 2013 Jason Yuan, USA

Certificate of Excellence 

Certificates of Excellence are awarded to PVRI members (individuals or groups) for their public service to the field of PH or for their research published within the previous 12 months. Contributions to PVRI are not an eligibility criterion. PVRI’s subcommittee will make nominations and select winners. 

Award winners

• 2024 Jason Weatherald, Canada & Mark Toshner, UK
• 2022 Olena Torbas, Ukraine, Ewa Lewicka, Poland, Ewa Mroczek, Poland, Stephan Rosenkranz, Germany & Patricia Thistlethwaite, USA 
• 2020 Gabriel Diaz, Colombia & the Latin America Task Force 
• 2019 Sylvia Nikkho, Germany & Peter Fernandes, USA 
• 2018 Martin Johnson, UK & Colin Church, UK 
• 2017 Kurt Stenmark, USA & Stephen Archer, Canada 
• 2016 Ian Adatia, Canada & the Paediatric Task Force 
• 2015 The Committee for Young Clinicians & Scientists 
• 2014 Majdy Idrees, Canada & the SAPH Task Force

The Butrous Foundation Young Investigator Award 

The Butrous Foundation was set up by Ghazwan Butrous, one of PVRI’s founders. The award is given to a promising young investigator under 35 years old, who submits the best abstract at our Annual Congress, as judged by the meeting’s Organising Committee. 

Award winners

• 2024 Hanan Yusuf Ahmed, Ethiopia
• 2022 Azar Kianzad, Amsterdam 
• 2021 Prakash Chelladurai, Germany 
• 2020 Thomas Koudstaal, The Netherlands 
• 2019 Kurt Prins, USA 
• 2018 Olena Rudyk, UK 
• 2017 Jocelyn Dupuis, Canada

The Rupert Swift Award 

This Award celebrates the life of Rupert Swift, who developed PH and sadly died in 2018. It is awarded to an outstanding young scientist under 35 years of age, in recognition of an outstanding abstract submitted to our Annual Congress, as judged by the meeting’s Organising Committee. The Swift family support the Award winner to present a lecture at our Annual Congress in Rupert’s name. 

Award winners

• 2024 Anna Kirillova, USA
• 2022 Ana Olga Mocumbi, Mozambique 
• 2021 Niamh Errington, UK 
• 2020 Emilia Swietlik, UK 
• 2019 François Potus, Canada