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Leslie Zachary Benet

Leslie Zachary Benet, (born May 17, 1937) is an American pharmaceutical researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, who studies pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics. He is considered a pioneer in the field of pharmacokinetics and a leader in the fields of pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics.

Background

He received his A.B. (English), B.S. (Pharmacy), M.S. from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from the University of California.

Awards and Honors

1972-73

Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, University of California, San Francisco.

1973

Elected Fellow, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

1976

Recipient, 600-year Anniversary Medal, Nicolas Copernicus, Medical Academy of Krakow, Poland (May 24).

1978

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1979-81

Chairman, Pharmacology Study Section, National Institutes of Health. Member 1977-81.

1982

Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, The University of Michigan College of Pharmacy.

Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutics, American Pharmaceutical Association Foundation/Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

1986-88

Chairman, Pharmacological Sciences Review Committee, National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Member 1984-88.

1987

Doctor of Pharmacy, honoris causa, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

1987

Jubilee Lecturer, 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Uppsala, Sweden (May 25).

Graduation Speaker, University of California School of Pharmacy (June 24).

Elected Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

Election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

1988

Member, Forum on Drug Development and Regulation, Institute of Medicine. (through 1994) Distinguished Service Award, American College of Clinical Pharmacology (October 31)

1989

First American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Distinguished Scientist Award (October 25)

1990

Rho Chi Lecture Award (March 11)

Member, Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association "Blue Ribbon" Committee on Generic Medicines to Examine the Generic Drug Industry and the Drug Approval Process

Long Teaching Award, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Elected Member, Bioavailability, Bioequivalence and Dissolution Subcommittee, Committee on Revisions, The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. (through 1995)

Member, Food and Drug Administration Generic Drugs Advisory Committee (through 1993)

1991

Volwiler Distinguished Research Achievement Award, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

1992

Co-Chair, "Workshop: Women and Drug Development," Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., (June 22,23)

1993

American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Distinguished Service Profile Award (January 12)

Member, Science Board, Food and Drug Administration (through 1998)

Chair, Committee on Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science, Institute of Medicine

Co-Chair, "Enzymes of Drug Metabolism: Importance to Drug Safety and Efficacy," Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC (January 25, 26)

Chair, "Workshop on Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science," Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC (April 13, 14)

Member, Membership Committee, Institute of Medicine (through 1997)

1995

Rawls Palmer Progress in Medicine Award, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (March 15)

Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, Leiden University, The Netherlands (June 9)

1996

Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, (October 27)

1997

Graduation Speaker, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (May 8)

Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Illinois, Chicago (May 11)

Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia (May 12)

Nominated by HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala as 1 of 8 candidates forwarded to President Clinton for the post of FDA Commissioner

1998

Chair, External Peer Review Committee FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

Chair, FDA Expert Panel on Individual Bioequivalence (through 1999)

Graduation Speaker, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco (June 20)

1999

Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (May 21)

Graduation Speaker, 110th Commencement, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (May 21)

Chair, IOM Adverse Drug Reactions Committee

2000

Higuchi Research Prize, American Pharmaceutical Association, Washington, DC (March 12)

Dale E. Wurster Award in Pharmaceutics, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Indianapolis (October 29)

2001

PPSI Distinguished Person of the Year, Pharmacists Planning Service, San Francisco (March 20) Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, University of California San Francisco Graduate Division, San Francisco, CA (May 18)

Høst-Madsen Medal, International Pharmaceutical Federation, Singapore (Sept 2)

Elected Fellow, American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists

2002

Invested as a “Miembro Honorario” of the Academia de Ciencias Farmacéuticas de Chile, Santiago, Chile (April 29)

Chair, IOM/NRC Committee on Accelerating the Research, Development and Acquisition of Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents (through 2004)

2003

Invested as a “Member of Honour” of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, Bucharest, Romania (December 5)

Listed as one of the most highly cited pharmacologists worldwide, ISI Highly Cited Researcher (December)

2004

Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress 2004, Kyoto, Japan (May 31)

Career Achievement Award in Oral Drug Delivery, Controlled Release Society 2004 Annual Meeting & Exposition, Honolulu (June 14)

2005

Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, University of Athens, Greece (Oct 7)

2007

Graduation Speaker, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, MI (June 2)

International Honorary Member, Japan Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, Sendai, Japan (October 8)

UCSF 7th Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer, University of California San Francisco (October 17)

2008

Paul Ehrlich Magic-Bullet Award 2008 Lifetime Achievement, one of seven Lifetime Achievement awards bestowed at Ehrlich II 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize Awarded to Paul Ehrlich, Nürnberg, Germany (October 3)

2010

Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award in Therapeutics, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 111th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (March 20)

Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (March 26)

Elected Fellow, Controlled Release Society (July 13)

2011

Distinguished Investigator Award, American College of Clinical Pharmacology, 40th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (Sept 10)

Named “National Associate” of the National Research Council (Dec)

Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Dec 18)

2012

Honorary Member, Chinese Society of Clinical Pharmacy, Zhengzhou, China, April 2012

Honorary Member, International Pharmaceutical Federation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (Oct 4)

2013

2013 APhA-APRS Ebert Prize, American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS), APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition, Los Angeles, CA (March 3)

ZICPS Medicines Safety Award, 2nd Zagreb International Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia (October 25)

AAPS Journal Manuscript Award for the Most Outstanding Manuscript (BDDCS Applied to Over 900 Drugs) published in the Journal, 2013 AAPS Annual Meeting & Exposition, San Antonio, TX (November 10)

2014

Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. One of 16 pharmacologists worldwide to be listed in both the 2001 and 2014 compilations.

2015

Listed among the “25 Top Pharmacy Professors” in the U.S.A. by Medical Technology Schools

William B. Abrams Lectureship, Food and Drug Administration/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA/CDER) and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) (April 29)