Global Gator Award
The Global Gator Award is given every other year to an individual who best represents the University of Florida Gator Spirit internationally in the field of Clinical Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology.
The award is presented at the Symposium on New Developments in Clinical Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology.
2009 Willy Roth
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2007 Markus Brewster
Dr. Marcus E. Brewster is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Department of Drug Delivery Research at the Janssen Research Foundation, Beerse Belgium. He also serves on the faculty of the University of Florida, College of Pharmacy as an Adjunct Associate Professor. He received his BS degree from Mercer University in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1982 working with Prof. Nicholas Bodor. Dr. Brewster also spent two years as a Visiting Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (1996-97). He has published 146 journal articles, written or contributed to over 20 book chapters and proceedings and holds 12 patents. He is an member of several editorial boards and a recipient of the Johnson and Johnson Excellence in Science Award. Dr. Brewster’s main research interests include the use of chemically modified cyclodextrin derivatives for pharmaceutical application, brain-targeted drug delivery through the use of chemical delivery systems and the application of molecular orbital and other computational approaches in addressing items of chemical and biological concern.
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2005 Hans Schreier
Dr. Hans Schreier is a founder and CEO of MCS Micro Carrier Systems GmbH, a formulation development company based in Neuss, Germany. He received his dipl. pharm. ETH degree in 1976 and his Dr. sc. nat. degree in 1981 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, followed by postdoctoral training from 1981-1983 at the University of California – San Francisco (UCSF) and a Senior Scientist position at Liposome Technology, Inc., in Menlo Park, California from 1983-1986. During his academic career, he held appointments as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy (1986-1993) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1993-1995). He has been a founder, Director and the Principal Scientist of Advanced Therapies, Inc., a nonviral gene delivery company (1995-1998) and is a co-founder of ARYx Therapeutics, Los Altos Hills, CA, a virtual drug discovery and pharmaceutical development company. He is the Executive Director of Liposome Research Days, Inc., a non-profit organization (since 1994) and co-organizer of the biennial international "Liposome Research Days" conference. He has published over 70 articles, reviews and book chapters and holds several patents. He is the editor of a recent book on 'Drug Targeting Technology: Physical, Chemical and Biological Methods' (Marcel Dekker, 2001). He is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Liposome Research, and a member and elected Governor (1996-1999) of the Controlled Release Society (CRS). He maintains extensive professional links with individuals, companies, agencies and scientific organizations in the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
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