June 29, 2021
1-2 PM EDT

The John G. Bartlett Award
"Catalyzing Clinical Research to Improve Global Health"
Presented to

Jeffrey Murray

Deputy Director, Division of Antiviral Products, FDA

The Forum for Collaborative Research (The Forum) invites you to join a celebration to honor the memory of Dr. John G. Bartlett, a pioneer in HIV/AIDS study and treatment, and acknowledge Dr. Jeffrey Murray's twenty-nine years of service at the Division of Antiviral Products at the FDA. During this special celebration, the Forum will inaugurate the John G. Bartlett Award for Catalyzing Clinical Research to Improve Global Health to be presented to Dr. Jeffrey Murray by the FDA Acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock.

Dr. Murray, a visionary and forward-thinking leader, has promoted and contributed to innovations for approvals of new therapeutics to treat and prevent infectious diseases. For many years, he has inspired and championed the Forum for Collaborative Research’s work-- most recently, inspiring efforts towards advancing the regulatory path for new PrEP agents and developing expert consensus on the use of counterfactual HIV incidence estimates to serve as external controls. Dr. Murray has co-authored seminal peer-reviewed publications and FDA guidance documents for HIV drug development, HIV fixed-dose combinations for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the development of drugs for the treatment of Influenza and Hepatitis C.

Dr. John J. Bartlett served as academic co-chair of the HIV Forum's Executive Committee. He was an internationally recognized visionary leader, a pioneer in HIV/AIDS study and treatment, and a receiver of many awards, including the Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement, and the Forum’s C. Everett Koop Public Health Leadership Award. Dr. Bartlett was at the forefront of fighting the AIDS epidemic since the early 1980s; he started an AIDS clinic at Johns Hopkins in 1983, directed clinical trials in Baltimore of new treatments that prevent HIV from replicating, and was co-chair and one of the founding members of the national committee that drafted the first and all subsequent treatment guidelines for HIV-infected patients. Dr. Bartlett was the Stanhope Bayne-Jones Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he successfully built the infectious diseases division at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the largest divisions at Johns Hopkins and one of the world's premier centers.

While serving as the HIV Forum’s co-chair, he frequently commented that Jeff Murray should receive an award for his commitment to improving treatment of HIV, viral hepatitis and other viral diseases through innovation in development.

It is an honor for the Forum to take Dr. John Bartlett’s words to heart and present this award, in his name, to Dr. Jeffrey Murray.

We hope you are able to join us in celebrating Dr. John Bartlett's legacy and pay tribute to Dr. Jeffrey Murray for their significant contributions to the fight against infectious diseases and their dedication to the Forum's mission.

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