Fred W Tanner Lectureship Award

Past Award Recipients

• 1963 – B.S. Platt, Ph.D., M.B., Ch.B., ( Director of the Human Nutrition Research unit of the Medical Research Council, Mill Hill, London)
• 1964 – John M. Kuprianoff, Sc.D., (Director, Federal Institute for Food Preservation, Karlsruhe, Germany)
• 1965 – Lloyd M. Beidler, Ph.D., (Professor of Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL)
• 1966 – S.M. Partridge, Ph.D., (Head, Department of Protein Chemistry, Meat Research Institute, Cambridge, UK)
• 1967 – Fredrick J. Stare, M.D., Ph.D., (Chairman, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA)
• 1968 – Fred S. Thatcher, Ph.D., (Chief, Div. of Microbiology Research Laboratories, Food & Drug Directorate, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
• 1969 – Emil M. Mrak, Ph.D., (Chancellor, University of California, Davis, CA)
• 1970 – Morley R. Kare, Ph.D., (Professor of Physiology and Director, Monell Chemical Senses Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
• 1971 – James R. Vickery, Ph.D., (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Food Preservation, Australia (Retired))
• 1972 – E.M. Foster, Ph.D., (Director, Professor of Bacteriology, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
• 1973 – Calvin A. Lang, Sc.D., (Professor of Biochemistry and Director, Biological Aging Program, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY)
• 1974 – Rose Marie Pangborn, M.S., (Professor of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, CA)
• 1975 – Jean Mayer, Ph.D., Sc.D., (Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA)
• 1976 – Steven R. Tannebaum, Ph.D., (Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)
• 1977 – Alexander M. Schmidt, M.D., (Vice Chancellor for Health Services, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL)
• 1978 – Aaron M. Altschul, Ph.D.( Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine and Internal Health, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.)
• 1979 – Thomas H. Jukes, Ph.D., (Professor, Medical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA)
• 1980 – Sylvan H. Wittwer, Ph.D., (Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI)
• 1981 – L.J. Filer, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., (Professor of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA)
• 1982 – Walter Mertz, M.D. (Director of Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD)
• 1983 – David Kritchevsky, Ph.D., (Associate Director, Philadelphia, PA)
• 1984 – David A. McCarron, M.D., (Director, Hypertension Program, The Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR)
• 1985 – Fergus M. Clydesdale, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)
• 1986 – Michael P. Doyle, Ph.D., (Assistant Professor, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
• 1987 – Richard L. Hall, Ph.D., (Vice President of Science and Technology, McCormick & Co., Inc. Hunt Valley, MD)
• 1988 – Douglas L. Archer, Ph.D., (Director, Division of Microbiology, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Washington D.C.)
• 1989 – Gilbert Leveille, Ph.D., (Vice President, Research and Technology, Nabisco Brands, Inc., East Hanover, NJ)
• 1990 – Alina S. Szczesniak, Sc.D., (former Principle Scientist, General Foods Corporation)
• 1991 – John E. Kinsella, Ph.D., (Dean of the College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA)
• 1992 – Marcus Karel, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey)
• 1993 – Susan Schiffman, Ph.D., (Professor of Medical Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC)
• 1994 – Roy L. Whistler, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Hillenbrand Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)
• 1995 – Owen Fennema, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
• 1996 – Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D., (President, Ceregen Unit of the Monsanto Company)
• 1997 – Alan W. Holmes, Ph.D., O.B.E. (former Director of British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association at Leatherhead)
• 1998 – Arthur J. Morgan, Jr., Ph.D., (U.S. Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center)
• 1999 – Philip Nelson, Ph.D., (Director of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)
• 2000 – Gary K. Beauchamp, Ph.D., (Director, Monell Chemical Senses Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
• 2001 – Milos Kalab, Ph.D., Ph.D., (Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
• 2002 – Samuel Palumbo, Ph.D., (Research Microbiologist, USDA, Eastern Regional Research Center, MD and PA)
• 2003 – Terry E. Acree, Ph.D., (Professor of Biochemistry, Cornell University, Geneva, NY)
• 2004 – Louise Slade, Ph.D., and Harry Levine, Ph.D., (Kraft Foods Fellows, Kraft Foods, East Hanover, NJ)
• 2005 – Donald B. Thompson, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
• 2006 – Beverley J. Kroll (CEO, Peryam & Kroll Research Corporation, Chicago, IL)
• 2007 – Theodore P. Labuza, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN)
• 2008 – Todd R. Klaenhammer, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science, Microbiology and Genetics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC)
• 2009 – Larry R. Beuchat, Ph.D., (Professor, Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA)
• 2010 – Steven J. Schwartz, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science & Technology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)
• 2011 – Gary R. List, ScD., G.R. (List Consulting, President, Washington, IL)
• 2012 – Richard W. Hartel, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
• 2013 – Connie Weaver, Ph.D., (Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Nutrition Science, Purdue University, W Lafayette, IN)
• 2014 – John W. Erdman, Jr., Ph.D., (Professor Emeritus, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL)
• 2015 – Gary Reineccius, Ph.D., (Professor and past Department Head in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.)
• 2016 – Peter Schieberle, Ph.D., (Professor at the Technical University of Munich and Chair for Food Chemistry in the Chemistry Department. Director of the German Research Center for Chemistry and Director of the Hans-Dieter-Belitz Institute for Cereal and Protein Research. Munich, Germany.)
• 2017 – Steve Taylor, Ph.D., (Professor and Co-Director – Food Allergy Research and Resource Program at the University of Nebraska)
• 2018 – Purnendu C. Vasavada, Ph.D., (Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Food Science and Dairy Manufacturing.)
• 2019 – Dennis R. Heldman, (2018 – Nicholas Appert Prize Recipient and Dale A Seiberling Endowed Professor of Food Engineering)
• 2020 – John W Spink, PH.D., (Director, Food Fraud Initiative & Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management, Eli Broad Business College, Michigan State University,)
• 2021 – Soo-Yeun Lee, PhD., (Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois)
• 2022 – Kantha Shelke, PhD., (Sr. Lecturer, Food Safety Regulations, Johns Hopkins University )
• 2023 – Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, Ph.D., (Professor of Food Science, University of Illinois )
• 2024 – Frank Yiannas (Founder, Smarter FY Solutions, Former Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response at the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations )
• 2025 – V.M. Balasubramaniam, Ph.D. (Professor of Food Engineering, Ohio State University)