PROGRAM
ISOT 2020 AWARD WINNERS
AChemS offers a number of awards that recognize the accomplishments of our members at several stages of their careers and that support the participation of students and postdocs.
Click here to see past award winners.
Click here to see past award winners.

2020 MAX MOZELL AWARD
Julie Mennella, PhD
Monell Chemical Senses Center
For Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses is intended to recognize the accomplishments of a senior scientist working in the chemical senses. The research record should provide evidence of excellence and contributions that have a major impact on research in the chemical senses.
Julie Mennella, PhD
Monell Chemical Senses Center
For Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses is intended to recognize the accomplishments of a senior scientist working in the chemical senses. The research record should provide evidence of excellence and contributions that have a major impact on research in the chemical senses.

2020 ACHEMS YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Christina Zelano, PhD
Northwestern University
For Research in Olfaction or Nasal Chemosensation is awarded to an outstanding junior scientist whose research record should provide evidence of excellence and contributions that have had or are likely to have a major impact on research in the field of olfaction.
Christina Zelano, PhD
Northwestern University
For Research in Olfaction or Nasal Chemosensation is awarded to an outstanding junior scientist whose research record should provide evidence of excellence and contributions that have had or are likely to have a major impact on research in the field of olfaction.

2020 AJINOMOTO AWARD
Ann-Marie Torregrossa, PhD
University at Buffalo
For Young Investigators in Gustation or Oral Chemosensation is awarded to an outstanding junior scientist whose research record provides evidence of excellence and contributions that have had or are likely to have a major impact on research in the field of gustation.
Ann-Marie Torregrossa, PhD
University at Buffalo
For Young Investigators in Gustation or Oral Chemosensation is awarded to an outstanding junior scientist whose research record provides evidence of excellence and contributions that have had or are likely to have a major impact on research in the field of gustation.

2020 IFF AWARD
Maria Veldhuizen, PhD
The John B. Pierce Laboratory
For Research in the Psychophysics of Human Taste and Smell is awarded to an outstanding junior scientist whose research record provides evidence of excellence and the promise to emerge as a leader in the field.
Maria Veldhuizen, PhD
The John B. Pierce Laboratory
For Research in the Psychophysics of Human Taste and Smell is awarded to an outstanding junior scientist whose research record provides evidence of excellence and the promise to emerge as a leader in the field.
2020 POLAK YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDEES
- Maria E. De Obaldia, Rockefeller University
- Jessleen Kanwal, Harvard University
- Hillary C. Schiff, Stony Brook
- Douglas A Storace, Florida State University
- Evelina Thunell, Karolinska Institutet & Purdue University
2019 DON TUCKER MEMORIAL AWARD
- Jordan Ross, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
2019 ACHEMS AWARD FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
- Ahmad Zedan, University of California