Prizes Awarded

The award for 2008 has been given to Louis Blecher, founder of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas in 1991 and the person responsible for the creation of the Regional IPECs in America, Europe, and Japan. Mr. Blecher's strong commitment and efforts to build an excipient global trade association and to set high standards of global self-regulation and harmonization of excipients over the last seventeen years have been a credit to the entire international pharmaceutical industry. To honor Louis Blecher's outstanding lifetime efforts the Foundation has made him the first recipient of this award and renamed this award in his honor.