The Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award recognizes an outstanding individual who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to, and made important contributions that have had a significant impact on education, practice and/or research in laboratory medicine or patient care.
This award honors Wallace H. Coulter, founder of Coulter Corporation and inventor of the Coulter Principle, a simple but elegant innovation that revolutionized hematology and the practice of laboratory medicine, pioneered the field of flow cytometry and defined particle characterization. The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine’s (formerly AACC) most prestigious award—presented annually at the the ADLM Annual Meeting—commemorates Wallace Coulter's outstanding contributions to diagnostics and his championship of research and innovation. It is fitting that his legacy will be celebrated with lectures by renowned leaders in healthcare.
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation generously supports The Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award.
Congratulations to the 2026 Winner
David M. Nathan, MD
David M. Nathan, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He founded the Diabetes Center and directs the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. An internationally acclaimed diabetes expert, he performed early, seminal studies to establish the HbA1c assay and conducted the first clinical studies with GLP-1 therapy in diabetes. Dr. Nathan is best known for his leadership of some of the most important studies in the treatment and prevention of diabetes including the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study in type 1 diabetes, and the Diabetes Prevention Program and the GRADE study in type 2 diabetes. David was awarded the Outstanding Clinician Award in 2002 and the inaugural Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award in 2015, both from the American Diabetes Association, and the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Previous Winners
2025 - Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG
2024 - Patrick M. Bossuyt, PhD
2023 - Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD
2022 - George Church, PhD
2021 - Regina Barzilay, PhD
2020 - Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
2019 - David R. Walt, PhD
2018 - Brian Druker, MD
2017 - Jennifer Doudna, PhD
2016 - John T. McDevitt, PhD
2015 - Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, MD
2014 - Eric J. Topol, MD
2013 - C. Ronald Kahn, MD
2012 - Eric D. Green
2011 - Mary-Claire King, PhD
2010 - John Trojanowski
2009 - Jerome E. Groopman, MD
