The Awardee will deliver the Harasawa Memorial Lecture on a topic of their choice. This is one of the most important plenary sessions at the APSR Congress.
The Lecture is in memory of the late Dr Michiyoshi Harasawa, the first president of the APSR, who died in September 2002.
Nominations for the honour of delivering the Lecture can be made by any member of the APSR and nominees can be any member of the APSR whose work enshrines excellence in respiratory research.
Nominations will be considered by the APSR Nomination Committee.
2003 | Dr Masayuki Ando Japan | "Summer-type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis" |
2004 | Dr Hidetada Sasaki | "New Therapies for Pulmonary Disease in Older People" |
2005 | Dr Shoji Kudoh | "Novel Development of Macrolide Treatment of Respiratory Diseases" |
2006 | Dr Takayuki Kuriyama Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan | "Leading Edge of Molecular Pathogenesis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension" |
2007 | Dr Toshihiro Nukiwa | "The Implication of EGFR Kinase Constitutive Active Mutation in Lung Adenocarcinoma and Molecular Targeted Therapy in Patients of the Far East Asia" |
2008 | Dr Michiaki Mishima | "Digital Analysis of the Peripheral Airspace in Respiratory Diseases Using X-Ray CT and Pathological Imaging" |
2009 | Dr Masaharu Nishimura
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan | "Lessons from the Hokkaido COPD Cohort Study" |
2010 | Dr Mary Sau-Man Ip University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong | "Obstructive Sleep Apnea an evolving minefield" |
2011 | Dr Pan-Chyr Yang | "Lung cancer in never-smokers needs more personalized therapy" |
2012 | Dr Yoichi Nakanishi Japan | "The Long and Winding Road to Unmask Lung Cancer" |
2013 | Dr Peter Sly Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia | "Early life origins of chronic lung disease" |
2014 | Dr Kazuhisa Takahashi | "A Challenge to Overcome of Drug Resistance in Lung Cancer" |
2015 | Dr Hiroshi Kimura | "Crosstalk between Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Lifestyle-related Diseases" |
2016 | Dr YC Gary Lee Australia | "Pleural disease – the past, recent advances and what lies ahead" |
2017 | Dr Takahide Nagase Japan | "Respiratory research using cellular, molecular and physiologic approaches" |
2018 | Dr Kazuo Chin Japan | "Overcoming sleep disordered breathing for a healthy life expectancy" |
2019 | Dr Arata Azuma Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan | "Paradigm Shift of Management on Pulmonary Fibrosis" |
2021 | Dr Shinji Teramoto Japan | "A novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategy based on micro-aspiration hypothesis for aspiration pneumonia" |
2022 | Dr Chong Jen Yu Taiwan | Chronic lung diseases: COPD and bronchiectasis |
2023 | Dr Kazuto Matsunaga Japan | New Strategies to Realize Clinical Remission in Asthma |