Each year, PDA presents the Frederick D. Simon Award for the best paper published in the PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology. The award is named in honor of the late Frederick D. Simon, a former PDA Director of Scientific Affairs, and is presented to recipients at the PDA Annual Meeting.
Below are the last ten award-winning papers.
| 2022 | Julian Lenger, Raimund Geidobler, Werner Halbinger, Ingo Presser, and Gerhard Winter | 100% Control of Controlled Ice Nucleation Vials by Camera-Supported Optical Inspection in Freeze-Drying |
| 2021 | Liang Fang, Coralie Adele Richard, Galen Huaiqiu Shi, Xia Dong, Marissa Rase, Tingting Wang | Physicochemical Excipient-Container Interactions in Prefilled Syringes and Their Impact on Syringe Functionality, July/August 2021 |
| 2020 | Marine Marius, Frédéric Vacher, Thierry Bonnevay | Comparison of Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate and Recombinant Factor C Assays for Endotoxin Detection in Four Human Vaccines with Complex Matrices," July/August 2020 |
| 2019 | Philippe Lam, Thomas W. Patapoff | Split-Cakes, Still Delicious, January/February 2019 |
| 2018 | Aaron Hubbard, Thomas Roedl, Ada Hui, Stephanie Knueppel, Kirk Eppler, Siegfried Lehnert, and Yuh-Fun Maa | Vapor Phase Hydrogen Peroxide Decontamination or Sanitization of an Isolator for Aseptic Filling of Monoclonal Antibody Drug Product—Hydrogen Peroxide Uptake and Impact on Protein Quality, July/August 2018 |
| 2017 | Christopher Timmons, Chi Yuen Liu, and Stefan Merkle | Particulate Generation Mechanisms during Bulk Filling and Mitigation via New Glass Vial, September/October 2017 |
| 2016 | Patricia Cash, Stephan Krause, Sophia Levitskaya-Seaman, Maryam Mazaheri, Derek Murphy, and Roja Narwal | Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Inherent Visible Particles for Biopharmaceutical Products, March/April 2016 |
| 2015 | Mayumi Bowen, Benson Gikanga, Ada Hui, Yuh-Fun Maa, Oliver B. Stauch, and Robert Turok | Manufacturing of High-Concentration Monoclonal Antibody Formulations via Spray Drying—the Road to Manufacturing Scale, January/February 2015 |
| 2014 | Yuh-Fun Maa, Wendy Shieu, Sarah Torhan, Edwin Chan, Aaron Hubbard, Benson Gikanga, and Oliver Stauch | Filling of High-Concentration Monoclonal Antibody Formulations into Pre-Filled Syringes: Filling Parameter Investigation and Optimization, March/April 2014 |
| 2013 | Xiaolin Cao, Gregory S. Stimpfl, Zai-Qing Wen, Gregory T. Frank, and Glenn Hunter | Identification and Root Cause Analysis of Cell Culture Media precipitates in the Viral Deactivation Treatment with High-Temperature/Short-Time Method, January/February 2013 |