ISAC Awards
Society Awards
Each year, ISAC celebrates excellence and innovation across the cytometry community through its prestigious awards program. These honors recognize individuals whose exceptional achievements, leadership, and contributions have advanced the field of cytometry and related sciences.
With the support of the ISAC Nominations and Awards Committee, outstanding members of the global cytometry community are identified and recognized for their impact. Award recipients are honored each year during the CYTO Annual Congress, celebrating their accomplishments alongside colleagues from around the world.
Howard Shapiro Award
Recognizes a researcher in a developing country who is working on innovative technologies for developing or implementing diagnostic or educational tools using image or flow cytometry. A recipient does not need to be a member of the Society.
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Mack Fulwyler Award for Innovative Excellence
Established in memory of Mack J. Fulwyler, the inventor of the electrostatic cell sorter, this award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding innovation by invention, or in a career of innovative science. A recipient does not need to be a member of the Society.
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Joseph T. Trotter Leader in Cytometry Technology Award
This award recognizes an individual who has advanced cytometry through physical or conceptual contributions that enhance the practice of cytometry by improving accuracy, precision, speed, throughput, or ease of use.
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Distinguished Service Award
A Distinguished Service Award was established to honor those individuals who served the Society in a major role, provided major support to the Society and its members, or made a significant contribution to the success of the Society.
* Please note that prior to 2006 the award was known as the Honorary Fellow of the Society Award. *
Past Recipients:
| Year: | Recipient: |
| 2026 | Sherry Thornton |
| 2025 | Kylie Price |
| 2024 | John Nolan |
| 2023 | Andreas Radbruch |
| 2022 | Paul Wallace |
| 2019 |
J. Paul Robinson Bill Telford |
| 2018 |
Ryan Brinkman Paul Smith |
| 2017 |
Joanne Lannigan Diether Recktenwald |
| 2016 |
Kathy Muirhead Robert Murphy Betsy Ohlsson-Wilhelm Peter Rabinovich |
| 2015 | Zosia Maciorowski |
| 2014 |
Jim Jett Gary Durack |
| 2013 |
James Leary Maria Pallavicini |
| 2012 |
Jan Visser Peter Lansdorp |
| 2011 |
Alex Nakeff Bruce Bagwell Janos Szollosi Frank Traganos |
| 2010 |
Attila Tarnok Bob Auer Laura Teodori Bob Hoffman Alan Waggoner David Park |
| 2008 | Awtar Krishan |
| 2006 |
Brian H. Mayall Ole Didrik Laerum |
| 2004 | James V. Watson |
| 2002 |
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz Ian T. Young |
| 2000 |
Carleton W. Stewart Scott Cram |
| 1998 |
Philip N. Dean Barton L. Gledhill |
| 1996 | Leon L. Wheeless |
| 1994 |
Mack J. Fulwyler Johannes Schumann |
| 1993 |
Wallace Coulter Bernard Shoor |
Membership Award
The ISAC Membership Award recognizes an individual with exceptional service to the cytometry community, as well as to the Society and those who have achieved peer recognition for advancing the field of cytometry.
* The award includes a lifetime membership with ISAC. *
Past Recipients:
| Year: | Recipient: |
| 2026 | Attila Tárnok |
| 2025 | Paul Wallace |
| 2024 | Bill Telford |
| 2023 | Zosia Maciorowski |
| 2022 |
Peter Lopez Joanne Lannigan |
| 2019 | Derek Davies |
| 2018 | Jonni Moore |
| 2017 | Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz |
| 2016 | Gulderen Yanikkaya Demirel |
| 2015 | Mario Roederer |
| 2014 | J. Paul Robinson |
| 2013 | Vincent Shankey |
| 2012 | Robert Lief |
| 2011 |
Scott Cram Carleton Stewart |
| 2010 | Awtar Krishan |
| 2008 | Hans J. Tanke |
| 2006 |
Gunter Valet Michael G. Ormerod |
| 2004 | Anne A. Hurley |
| 2002 | Howard Shapiro |
| 2000 |
Harry A. Crissman Harald B. Steen |
| 1998 |
Louis A. Kametsky Wolfgang Gohde Leonard A. Herzenberg |
| 1996 |
Myron Melamed Mortimer L. Mendelsohn |
| 1994 |
Klauss Goerttle Marvin A. Van Dilla |
| 1993 | J. Sebastian (Bas) Ploem |
CYTO Awards
Each year, CYTO provides opportunities to recognize outstanding research, presentations, and emerging talent across the cytometry community. These awards are selected in connection with the annual CYTO Congress and honor exceptional scientific contributions, presentations, posters, publications, and innovative technologies showcased during the meeting.
President’s Award for Excellence
The President’s Award for Excellence is presented to one or more of the outstanding early career members of ISAC. To be eligible for this award, a candidate must be a member of the Society, a post terminal degree student (PHD, Master’s, or equivalent) within 5 years of graduation, have published in refereed journals, and attend CYTO – the Society’s annual congress. The selected nominees are asked to give a 10-minute scientific presentation on their abstract at CYTO.
| Year: | Recipients: |
| 2026 | Martin Poinsinet de Sivry-Houle |
| 2025 | Daniel Wang |
| 2024 | Lei Chen |
| 2022 | Jina Ko |
| 2019 | Thomas Liechti |
| 2018 | Jolanda Brummelman |
| 2017 | Asylkhan Rakhymzhan |
| 2016 | Christopher Baker |
| 2015 | Jakub Nedbal |
| 2014 | Pia Kvistborg |
| 2013 |
Er Liu Adriano Taddeo |
| 2012 | Sean Bendall |
| 2011 | Tiffany Chen |
| 2010 | Ana Juan Garcia |
| 2008 | Ewa Zuba-Suma |
Exceptional Student Award
The Exceptional Student Award recognizes continuing outstanding performance by a pre-terminal degree student following a field of study in any physical or natural science with a goal of working in the broad area of cytometry. To be eligible for this award, a candidate must be a member of the Society, be a pre-doctoral or pre-master’s student and attend CYTO—the Society’s annual congress. Abstracts in the area of society service as well as scientific projects may be considered. The selected nominees are asked to present a 10-minute scientific presentation on their abstract at CYTO.
| Year: | Recipients: |
| 2026 | Ruby Hamilton |
| 2025 | Abida Shemonti |
| 2024 | Citradewi Soemardy |
| 2023 |
Lisa Budzinski Shreya Udani |
| 2022 |
Matthew DiSalvo Sara Garcia-Garcia |
| 2019 |
Jennifer Eng Amy Tsai |
| 2018 |
Ashley Connelly Dickson Siu |
| 2017 | Thomas Ashhurst |
| 2016 | Denis Schapiro |
| 2015 | Charles Shields IV |
| 2014 |
Maria Rebelo |
| 2013 | Charles Shields IV |
| 2012 | Rikki K. Anderson |
| 2011 | Allesandra Costa |
| 2010 | Deanna Santer |
| 2008 | Gabor Moscar |
Cytometry Part A Best Paper Award
Established in 2003, this award recognized the best paper appearing in Cytometry Part A, as judged by the editors and associate editors.
| Year: | Recipient: |
| 2026 |
Metabolic Changes in Living Human Lymphoma Cells Intervening NAD + Metabolism as Revealed by NAD(P)H-Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Para-Hydrogen-Induced Polarization NMR. |
| 2025 | SCIP: A scalable, reproducible, and open-source pipeline for morphological profiling of image cytometry and microscopy data |
Outstanding Poster Award
The Outstanding Poster Award is a competitive award given to one or more poster presenters at each CYTO Congress.
| Year: | Recipient: |
| 2026 | Lexi DeFord |
| 2025 | Trine Engelbrecht Hybel |
CYTO Technology Showcase Award
The CYTO Innovation Technology Showcase is an annual event organized by the CYTO Innovation Committee which allows scientists and engineers who seek to commercialize new technologies and services for cell analysis to present their plans to an audience of cytometrists, entrepreneurs, investors, and business development professionals from established corporations.
| Year: | Recipient: |
| 2026 | Rarity Bioscience AB |
| 2025 | Partillion Bioscience |
| 2024 | CytoRecovery |
| 2023 | Spectradyne LLC |
| 2022 | Scribe Biosciences |
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AIMBE College of Fellows
The American Institute for Molecular and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows is comprised of approximately 1,500 individuals who have made significant contributions to the medical and biological engineering community in academia, industry, government, and education.
As a member of the AIMBE Council of Societies, ISAC deeply values this partnership, which helps amplify our collective voice in advocating for sustained support of science and research.
See some of our ISAC members who have recieved AIMBE Recognition and inducted into the College of Fellows.
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