Award for Innovation in Healthcare & Bioscience

Nominations for national innovators are being accepted for the 2021 award from BioMedSA Members. Responses due by March 24, 2021

The 2021 Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience Award event has been cancelled.

Honoring Leaders of Healthcare Innovation

The BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience celebrates local and national innovators in the healthcare and bioscience industry, including patient care, education, research and development, leadership, public policy and medical technology.

2021 BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience

The 2021 Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience Award event has been cancelled. As the primary advocate for San Antonio’s academic, industry and military medical healthcare and bioscience organizations, BioMedSA’s mission – at its very core – is to preserve and promote the health and safety of our stakeholders and constituents. The Executive committee and program chairs unanimously agreed upon this prudent and necessary decision due to the surge in COVID cases, combined with the institutional stress our healthcare system currently faces.

“The great minds in San Antonio have truly pioneered innovation in this COVID crisis, and now is not the time to jeopardize the great strides forward that we have made,” commented Bob Hutchens, Co-chair of the BioMedSA award program and CEO of StemBioSys®. “We will remain focused on eradicating this pandemic and look forward to gathering in celebration when it is safe to do so.”

“The spirit of dedication and innovation demonstrated by our award winners – like Dr. Bob Ward – is mirrored by the incredible work our community is doing to fight this pandemic,” commented Shawn Hughes, Co-chair of the BioMedSA award program and Senior Vice President at Broadway Bank. “While we are disappointed not to have the event this year, BioMedSA remains committed to our support of the healthcare and bioscience institutions within our community and the important work these companies are doing.”

“The important work of BioMedSA’s stakeholders has been fully on display throughout the pandemic, and BioMedSA’s role in connecting our community’s institutions has been an important behind-the-scenes inflection point for information sharing and collective discussions,” said Heather Hanson, president of BioMedSA. “I want to thank the corporate sponsors of this year’s program and recognize the important role they play in helping us continue our mission.”

The 2022 award program will launch in March of next year.

Comments from San Antonio’s Mayor

Comments from the San Antonio Medical Foundation

UT Health San Antonio

Event Details

Thursday, September 23, 2021

5:30 – 7:00pm
Networking & VIP Session

7:00 – 8:00pm
Dinner & Award Presentation

8:00 – 9:00pm
Networking

Members: $165
Non-Members: $200
Military: $150

The Vista at Valero
1 Valero Way
San Antonio, TX 78249

We have increased the space significantly to meet safety protocols.

Masks will be provided, as needed.

The 2021 Winner of the BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience

BioMedSA will be announcing the recipient of the 2020 Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience soon.

2021 Sponsors

Presenting Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Alamo Colleges

Broadway Bank

Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Methodist Healthcare

Metis Foundation

Mission Pharmacal

Pape-Dawson Engineers

Southwest Research Institute

The Health Cell

Corporate Sponsors

Cancer Insight

City of San Antonio

CRB

Eagle Global Scientific

Fusion Success Group

Rochal Industries

San Antonio Chamber of Commerce

StemBioSys

Trinity University

Recipients

2021 – Robert Ward, Ph.D., serial biomaterials inventor and entrepreneur
2020 – Rena Bizios, Ph.D., research in cell-material interactions and biomedical engineering pioneer
2019 – Stephen Badylak, D.V.M., Ph.D., M.D., discovered the use of the extracellular matrix
2018 – Alan Peterson, Ph.D., ABPP, the nation’s foremost research leader in combat-related PTSD
2017 – Leonard Pinchuk, Ph.D., D.Sc. prolific biomaterials scientist and inventor
2016 – George E. Peoples, Jr., M.D., FACS, cancer immunotherapy pioneer
2015 – W.E. (William Esco) Moerner, Ph.D., Nobel Prize-winning chemist
2014 – Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., nationally-renowned pediatric transplant surgeon
2013 – Robert S. Langer, Sc.D., world-renowned engineer, inventor and entrepreneur in tissue engineering and biomaterials
2012 – Larry Miller, M.D., pioneer of leading intraosseous vascular access technology
2011 – Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., biologist and inventor of numerous scientific instruments
2010 – C. Mauli Agrawal, Ph.D., founded biomedical engineering degree program at UTSA
2009 – Dean Kamen, internationally acclaimed inventor and founder of DEKA and FIRST
2008 – Robert Campbell, M.D., Melvin Smith, M.D., and Kaye Wilkins, M.D., pediatric orthopedic inventors
2007 – Karen Davis, Ph.D., children’s health assessment program
2006 – Julio Palmaz, M.D., inventor of the first commercially successful intravascular stent

Lifetime Achievement Award

2018 – Basil A. Pruitt, Jr. M.D., one of the founding fathers of modern trauma and burn medicine