1. Grand Hamdan International Award
	Prof. Colin Masters Department of Pathology The University of Melbourne, Australia Prof. Masters is at present a Professor of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Consultant, Chief of the Neuropathology Laboratory, and Chair of the Senior Scientists Council at the Mental Health Research Institute in Victoria. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Brain Sciences. Prof. Masters has published 350 papers cited by PubMed, and has received numerous prestigious awards for his achievements.
2. Hamdan Award For Medical Research Excellence
Cytokines in Pathogenesis & Therapy of Diseases
	Prof. Charles Anthony Dinarello Professor of Medicine, University Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, USA Prof.Charles Dinarello is both a physician and a scientist. With his medical specialty of Infectious Diseases, he dedicated his clinical and laboratory studies to understand how the host responds to infection and inflammation. Prof. Dinarello made major contributions to the understanding and treatment of diseases mediated by cytokines, particularly Interleukin-l (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
Pathogenesis of Hypertension
	Professor Murray Esler Baker Heart Institute Australia Prof. Murray Esler is a cardiologist and medical scientist born in 1943 in a city, Gee long in Australia. Since 1977, his appointment has been to the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and the Baker Heart Research Institute, where he is currently Associate Director and Head of the cardiovascular Neuroscience Division. Prof. Esler's research and clinical interests are in causes and treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure; the human sympathetic nervous system; stress, and its effects on the heart and blood pressure; neurotransmitters of the human brain.
Biology of Aging
	Professor Christian Hass Director - Department of Biochemistry Ludwig Maximulians University of Munich, Germany Prof. Christian Haass was born in Mannheim at Germany in the year 1960. After his academic education in Biology in Ruprechts Karls University in Heidelberg, he completed his Ph.D. in "cDNA cloning proteasome subunits". In his postdoctoral training he was a fellow in the Laboratory of Prof. D J Selkoe at the Centre for Neurological Diseases at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Dr. Haass is an intellectually highly gifted and- methodologically sophisticated scientist who has made major contributions to our growing understanding of the cause and mechanism of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. His research in both fields will have direct implications for the development of therapeutic approaches.
3. Hamdan Award For Volunteers In Humanitarian Medical Services
	DIRECT AID, Kuwait Direct Aid is a charity organization established in 1981 in Kuwait. Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Summait is the founder of this organization is a philanthropist helping the poor societies in the black continent, Africa. Direct Aid has a very vast network of helping the poor people suffering from economical and social crisis. Dr. Al Summait has volunteered himself to provide food, cloth and shelter to those under poverty line and also to give them medical aid. Dr. Al Summait has executed a good number of projects that helped the poor people of Africa to ease their life from poverty. Since its establishment in 1981, Direct Aid has registered in the United Nations as a relief agency that works in more than 40 countries. In addition to that, it was considered a General Consultant in the Economical and Social Board of the United Nations in 1998.
	Human Appeal International Ajman, United Arab Emirates Human Appeal International was initially established to assist and support the victims of drought and famine in Africa. Since then, it has expanded its activities to cover several development programmes in countries across Asia and Africa. Human Appeal International provides Health Care by constructing and running of new clinics and providing existing ones with equipment and supplies. They are providing fixed and mobile clinics. Some of their activities include providing Medical Aid to 4,310 refugees in Mauritania in 1989; emergency aid to 8,500 refugees of Asian and African workers in Jordan in the Gulf war in 1990; Medical Aid to Kurds (13,000 refugees) in 1991; Medical Supplies to Bosnian refugees in the 1992 war. In addition this organization participates in health education and preventive health programs. They also organize children vaccination campaigns against contagious diseases. Similar activities are being carried out elsewhere since and we find no hesitation in awarding the humanitarian Award in Medical Fields to this organization.
	Sir Magdi Yacoub The Chain of Hope, United Kingdom Professor Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub was born in Aswan, Egypt on 16th November, 1935. His father was a general surgeon in Egypt. As a little boy he always admired what his father was doing and wanted to do surgery. He studied at Cairo University. He taught at Chicago, and moved to Britain in 1962 where he became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1969-2001) and director of medical research and education (from 1992). He is an eminent Heart Surgeon. Sir Magdi Yacoub has performed more transplants than any other surgeon in the world and he did thousands of surgeries. He is the founder of Chain of hope. As a scientist, his interest in the basic mechanisms of heart structure and function in health and disease has improved transplant surgery and patient care.