The Borelli Award, the most prestigious honor given by the ASB, recognizes outstanding career accomplishment and is awarded annually to an investigator who has conducted exemplary research in any area of biomechanics. The award is named after Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679). Borelli, a mid-17th century Professor of Mathematics from Naples, Italy, is considered to be the father of modern biomechanics. Borelli's novel contribution, the treatise “On the Movement of Animals” (Translated by Paul Maquet and published by Springer-Verlag), puts forth numerous propositions on the movements and displacements of the limbs of man and animals.

The Borelli Award selection is based on originality, quality and depth of the research and the relevance of this work to the field of biomechanics. The awardee must attend the Annual Meeting of the ASB in order to receive the award and to deliver the Borelli lecture. The award consists of an engraved plaque and a check for $1,500.

Eligibility

• The Borelli Award is open to all current ASB members, but excluding current ASB officers and members of the Borelli and Hay Awards Committees.

Nominations

• Candidates may be self-nominated or nominated by others. Candidates should be established scientists whose work incorporates biomechanics in any scientific field.

Submission Material

• Letter of nomination (7 hard copies or Word document or PDF)

• Comprehensive curriculum vitae (Word document or PDF)

• Five publications on a single topic or theme (PDF)

Submission Instructions

• Applications should be submitted electronically to the ASB Past-President (refer to the Executive Board).

• All material must be submitted by the deadline shown on the Awards page.

Year	Awardee	Title
2012	Carlo DeLuca	Neural Control of Force: a Biomechanistic Perspective
2011	Scott Delp	Illuminating Muscle Function
2010	Farshid Guilak	The Role of Biomechanics in the Health, Degeneration, and Repair of the Synovial Joint
2009	James Ashton-Miller	Lessons learned on using biomechanics to prevent selected unintentional injuries
2008	David Burr	Why Bones Bend but Don't Break: What Cement Lines, Floyd Landis and Laundry Detergent Have in Common
2007	Rick Lieber	Lessons in Skeletal Muscle Design and Plasticity
2006	Walter Herzog	Of Myosins, Muscles, and Mechanics of Contraction
2005	Kai-Nan An	The Evolving Journey Of Tendon And Joint Mechanics - Clinical Impacts From Humble Concepts
2004	Tom Andriacchi	Bridging Disciplines to Understand Osteoarthritis
2003	R. McNeil Alexander	Muscle and Tendon Function in Athletes and Animals
2002	Mimi Koehl	Smelling with Hairy Little Noses: The Physical Design of Olfactory Antennae
2001	Felix Zajac	Understanding muscle coordination of the human leg with dynamic simulations
2000	Clinton Rubin	Searching for Wolff’s Law: Do Specific Mechanical Signals Influence Bone Adaptation?
1999	Don Chaffin	Occupational Biomechanics---Past and Future
1998	Malcolm Pope	Oetiology of Low Back Pain Due to Whole Body Vibration
1997	Manohar Panjabi	New Findings About the Mechanism of Whiplash Injur
1996	Albert Schultz	Some Movements Of Older Animals.- What Leads to Age and Gender Differences in Balance Maintenance and Recovery?
1995	Wilson C. Hayes	An Update on the Movement of Animals: Falls Among Elderly Humans
1994	Peter R. Cavanagh	Rings in the Well: Adventures in the Study of Human Locomotion
1993	Savio L-Y Woo	Knee Ligaments: Twenty Years & I Hardly Know You
1992	Y.C. Fung	On the Pleasure of Biomechanics
1991	Van C. Mow	Reminiscences of a Middle-Age Biomechanician
1990	Rik Huiskes	Optimization Models for Bone Remodeling and Hip-Prosthetic Design
1989	Maury L. Hull	Progress Towards the Prevention of Knee Injuries in Alpine Skiing Accidents
1988	Krishnan Chandran	Flow Dynamics Past Artificial Heart Valves
1987	Alan Grodzinsky	Cartilage and Connective Tissue Electromechanics
1986	M.R. Yeadon	The Biomechanics of Twisting Somersaults
1985	A.E. Engin	Some Aspects of Head Injury, Modeling-Early Developments
1984	Tom Brown	Some Aspects of the Biomechanics of Femoral Head Osteonecrosis