Prize Objectives
The primary objective of the Lupus Insight Prize is to identify and recognize an outstanding investigator with a documented record of creativity and innovation who has made a novel research discovery in scientific domains relevant to lupus. The Prize is not a lifetime achievement award. Rather, the Lupus Insight Prize is given for a specific, significant, and recent (within the past five years) discovery relevant to lupus.
In addition to recognizing a specific insight or discovery, the Prize also aims to direct the talents of the Prize recipient toward further high impact research achievement and testing of the insight in lupus. This should shift the current paradigms and significantly advance the understanding or treatment of lupus. Secondary objectives of the Prize are to: (1) raise the visibility of lupus as a significant medical condition among the general public and (2) demonstrate the determination of the LRA to surmount the challenges of this complex and debilitating disease through the support of research.
Please see the 2025 Request for Nominations.
Past Lupus Insight Prize Recipients
2023 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
The Francis Crick Institute
https://www.lupusresearch.org/lupus-research-alliance-honors-carola-vinuesa-md-phd-for-discovering-a-specific-gene-variant-that-causes-lupus-in-some-patients/
2022 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
https://www.lupusresearch.org/lupus-research-alliance-awards-2022-lupus-insight-prize-to-immunologist-dr-akiko-iwasaki-renowned-immunology-expert-honored/
2021 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
https://www.lupusresearch.org/the-lupus-release-alliance-awards-2021-lupus-insight-prize-to-immunologist-dr-martin-kriegel/
2020 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
https://www.lupusresearch.org/the-lupus-research-alliance-announces-2020-lupus-insight-prize-recipient-dr-jane-salmon/
2019 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
Emory University School of Medicine
Identification of new B cell pathways
https://www.lupusresearch.org/lras-2019-lupus-insight-prize-awarded-to-dr-ignacio-sanz/
2018 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Neuropsychiatric Lupus: from underlying causes to therapeutic approaches
https://www.lupusresearch.org/2018-lupus-insight-prize-presented-dr-betty-diamond/
2017 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
Weill Cornell Medicine
Human Lupus from Bench to Bedside
https://www.lupusresearch.org/2017-lupus-insight-prize-presented-dr-virginia-pascual/
2016 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
University of Massachusetts Medical School
A Novel Model of CLE for the Exploration of Lupus Pathogenesis
Ann Marshak-Rothstein – Lupus Insight Prize 2016 Announcement – Press Release
2015 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Local factors control organ damage
George Tsokos – Lupus Insight Prize 2015 Winner Announcement – Press Release
2014 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
University of Michigan
Gene/Environment Interactions in Lupus
Bruce Richardson – Lupus Insight Prize 2014 Winner Announcement – Press Release
2013 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient
University of Pittsburgh
Recent Advances in Autoimmune Diseases: Focus on Lupus
Mark J. Shlomchik- Lupus Insight Prize 2013 Winner Announcement – Press Release
