The International Society for Molecular Recognition (ISMR) administers the international and highly-prestigious Award in Affinity Technology, which is awarded at each biennal ISMR Affinity Conference. 
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The only obligation upon the recipient of the Award is the presentation of a lecture describing their work in the area of Affinity Technology. In addition to the recognition, the award carries with it a cash prize, as well as a stipend toward the recipient's travel expenses to attend the ISMR Affinity Conference

Recipients of the Awards in Affinity Technology

2019	Ingemar Lundström	Work in the physical principles of the underlying SPR phenomenon and the insights and first demonstrations of how this could be used for immunosensing
2017	Sten Ohlsen David Hage	Weak affinity chromatography Theory, development and applications of antibodies and related agents in "chromatographic" immunoassays and separations.
2015	Richard Willson	Bioseparations and Diagnostics
2013	Sophia Hober	Development of binders for biotechnological purposes
2011	Alois Jungbauer	Bioseparations
2009	Ruedi Aebersold	Analytical protein chemistry and proteomics
2007	H.P. Jennissen	Protein Adsorption, Critical Hydrophobicity HIC
2005	Bertrand Seraphin	Splice-site recognition
2001	Stellan Hjerten	Affinity Matrices, HIC
1999	Mookambeswaran Vijayalakshmi	Immobilized Metal Ion Chromatography (IMAC)
1997	Shin Ishii	Quantitative Affinity Chromatography
1995	Fred Regnier Mathias Uhlen	Inverse Phase HPLC
1993	Jerker Porath	CNBr Method, Affinity Chromatography
1991	Irwin Chaiken
1989	Chris Lowe	Biomimetic Dye Chromatography
1987	Meir Wilchek	Introduction of Affinity Chromatography Biotin-Avidin System
1985	Klaus Mosbach	Molecular Imprinting