MR Excellence Awards

We are pleased to announce you can now prepare your submission for the 2025 Awards - find out more here

  The deadline is 28 February 2025 - apply by then.

    We have 3 Awards:

      - Innovative Approach

      - Making a Business impact

     - Future Leaders Award

Entry is free for Member companies and for non-member companies the cost per entry is 350 CHF.

Take a look at the Winners of the 2024 MR Excellence Awards

MR Excellence Award Webinar – Innovative Approach- Sponsored by APLUSA

This has been won by a joint submission from Jacob Collins, Mantas Cerniauskas and Dimple Billimoria from Hall & Partners.

'Creating a patient-led digital assessment tool for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)'

Making a Business Impact – Sponsored by Adelphi Research

This has been won by a joint submission from Viv Farr and Sian Guthrie from Narrative Health and Charley Boyles and Natasha Silkin from MSD.

'Context: People with TNBC do not feel as if their voices count!'

Future Leaders Award, sponsored by Beyond Blue Insight

This award has been won by Edith Coronas, Senior Research Executive of Healthcare Research Worldwide (HRW)

‘Letting the research tell its story: the impact of connecting dots for asset positioning in Liver Cirrhosis’.

We have 3 Awards - details below.

    We are delighted to sponsor this award for the fourth year running, celebrating our rising stars in healthcare insights, supporting fresh talent, and recognising those who bring      excellence, innovation, and forward-thinking to the industry. Investing in tomorrow’s leaders means an exciting future for us all, and we are very proud to be part of it. 

Jenny Fletcher - Marketing Director

At APLUSA, we are proud to sponsor and support the Innovative Approach Award in 2025 once again. Recent events have challenged our healthcare market research community to embrace innovation like never before, and artificial intelligence has been instrumental in driving this transformation. This award offers a unique opportunity to spotlight groundbreaking approaches and their impact on healthcare business decisions. We eagerly look forward to seeing this year’s contributions

Christine Maï -  Deputy General Manager

Adelphi are proud to be involved with, and contributing to EPHMRA and its great work, by continuously sponsoring the MR Excellence awards since 2017.  We chose to support the ‘Making a Business Impact Award‘ from the start, because after all that should be the ultimate purpose in all we do, and in bringing better healthcare to our communities and success to our Research and Innovation based industry. We look forward to receiving, judging and selecting the winning contributions.

Stuart Cooper - CEO

So, how do we judge the Awards?

Award submissions will be judged according to these criteria:

Making a Business Impact

• Clarity of presentation and message conveyed

• Level of added value the approach provided given the business challenge

• Degree of measurable business impact

Innovative Approach

• Clarity of presentation and message conveyed

• Level of innovation demonstrated

• Level of added value the innovative approach provided compared to more traditional approaches

Future Leaders

• Clarity of presentation and message conveyed

• Demonstration of future leadership skills (skills beyond just being a good researcher)

Huge thanks to our Judges who, in 2024 freely gave their time to judge the Award submissions.

• Daniel Guerin - APLUSA
• Rachel Pughe - Adelphi Group
• Kelly Warth - Instar Research
• Niclas Holme - Brains and Cheek
• Rob Seebold - Buzzback
• Robert Cortese - Ipsos
• Andreas Lecca - L&L Resourcing

Take a look at the Previous Winners: