At the ASPET Annual Meeting at EB 2013 held in Boston, MA from April 20 – 24, William B. Campbell, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Medical College of Wisconsin, was presented with the 2013 PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence. This award from the PhRMA Foundation recognizes past early career grantees who have gone on to lead distinguished careers in science or academia. In 1976-77, his first year as a faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center (currently known as Southwestern Medical Center) in Dallas, he received a two-year starter grant from PhRMA which he used to purchase lab supplies. Dr. Campbell’s initial grant from PhRMA helped him provide data for an independent research article and led to key findings that resulted in his first grant from NIH and an NIH Research Career Development Award. http://phrma.org/phrma-foundation-2013-award-in-excellence-blog