ADLM Merit Awards
The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) celebrates outstanding contributions to medicine through its annual awards program, which culminates with formal recognition at the ADLM Annual Scientific Meeting.
Most awards go to those in the laboratory field, but some, such as the Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award, are often given to people from other disciplines.
2026 ADLM award winners
Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award
David M. Nathan, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Alan Wu, PhD, DABCC, FACB
San Francisco General Hospital
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Outstanding Contributions Through Service to the Profession of Clinical Chemistry
Barbara Goldsmith, PhD, FADLM
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Outstanding Contributions to Education in Clinical Chemistry
Veronica Luzzi, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
LuCitek LLC
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator
Nicholas Borcherding, MD, PhD
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Medical Laboratory Scientist Achievement Award
Shawn Luby, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Humans of ADLM - DEI Leadership Award (Individual Category)
Octavia M. Peck Palmer, PhD, PADLM
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Past President Award
Anthony A. Kileen, MD, BCh, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ADLM General Research Grant Recipient
William P.T.M. van Doorn
Maastricht University Medical Centre+
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Helen Free Travel Grant Recipient
Marisa Germaine, MLS(ASCP)CM SCCM
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee