Last year, another drug company,Sanaria, won a Vaccine Industry Excellence Award for Best Early Stage Vaccine for its malaria vaccine.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Three scientists based in the United States have won the two thousand nine Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

American swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, breaking the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Some Whig leaders remembered how William Henry Harrison had won the presidency for the party by campaigning as a military hero.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Republicans urged Union men to "vote as you shot" for Ulysses Grant the man who won the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He won an award for his work in atomic energy from the Atomic Energy Commission in nineteen fifty-four.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

President Roosevelt won even more public support for his actions during a labor crisis in the coal industry.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Soviet forces under Marshal Georgy Zhukov won a fierce battle for the city of Stalingrad -- now Volgograd.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

He has won Grammy Awards for two of his comedy albums and for best country instrumental performance.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

He won an Academy Award in nineteen fifty for composing the music for the film, "The Heiress."

VOA: special.2009.06.21

The program in India won an Ashden Award in two thousand six for using local sources of energy to improve quality of life.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in nineteen seventy-nine for her work in "Kramer vs.Kramer."

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for best actor for the nineteen eighty movie "Raging Bull."

VOA: special.2009.11.30

The singer-songwriter also won for Musical Event of the Year for his hit song "Hillbilly Bone."

VOA: special.2010.11.19