Awards

ICON has been named as one of the TIME World's Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2025. ICON featured at number 57 in the list of 500 companies, the number 2 Irish-based organisation and the highest CRO globally.

For the second year running, ICON has been announced as a winner of the Enlightened Growth Leadership Best Practices Recognition awards by The Frost & Sullivan Institute.

ICON was named Best Contract Research Organisation - Full-Service Providers at the 2024 Annual SCRIP Awards.

The MEQ 00089 campaign has won the 2024 Rx Club Show Award of Excellence in the “Direct to Consumer” category. This recognition underscores ICON’s in-house Creative & Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Solutions teams’ commitment to delivering high-quality, impactful campaigns.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Services teams have won two 2024 Health + Wellness Award honors from Graphic Design USA in the Brochures + Collateral category for the TANGO and ADAMANT study materials.

ICON's Creative and Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Services have won a GOLD AWARD honor in the category of Strategic Communications | Communications/Public Relations | Research/Study, from the MarCom Awards for the TANGO Study Materials. The team also won a HONORABLE MENTION for the ADAMANT Study Materials

ICON's Creative and Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Services have won a PLATINUM AWARD honor in the category of Strategic Communications | Communications/Public Relations | Research/Study, from the MarCom Awards for the UCB BE OPEN Study Materials

Alexander Murray, an ICON validation specialist, has been named IRT Young Professional 2024. He received the award at this year’s annual Interactive Response Technology (IRT) Professionals’ Day, celebrating IRT and clinical supply excellence across the industry.

FIRECREST medical animation video, “The Invisible Machine” won a gold MUSE award for the self-promotion category. The MUSE Creative Awards, established in 2015 by the International Awards Associate (IAA) as part of the MUSE Awards Program, celebrates and honours excellence and innovation in creative design, advertising, and digital media.

Barry Balfe, President, ICON Pharma Solutions has been named on the 2024 PharmaVoice 100 list. The awards recognise the most inspiring leaders in the life sciences space. Barry was recognised in the ‘Clinical Trials Pros’ category.

Rose Kidd, President, Operations Delivery was announced as the recipient of the Businesswoman Award at the 2024 Women Mean Business Awards. These recognise the achievements of businesswomen and female entrepreneurs across Ireland.

ICON has been recognised as one of the "World's Best Companies 2024" by TIME Magazine and Statista, and is the highest-ranked clinical research organisation on the list.

ICON has won two Stevie® Awards at the 2024 Annual International Business Awards: Gold for our technology video showcasing AI, platforms and wearables and Bronze for the CARD system, which enhances clinical data distribution. In the 2024 Stevie® Awards for Technical Excellence ICON has won a Silver for eClinical Development & Delivery’s tokenisation solution integrating real world and trial data.

ICON has been named a recipient of a 2024 CRO Leadership Award in the following categories:

• Capabilities (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Compatibility (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Expertise (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Quality (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Reliability (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)

ICON was the most awarded CRO across over 20 performance metrics.

ICON ‘exceeded customer expectations’ in the following Individual Attribute Awards:

• Data quality
• Meeting project timelines
• Operational excellence
• Technology for access to data
• Therapeutic expertise

ICON has won Company of the Year at the 2024 PharmaTimes Clinical Researcher of the Year International awards.

This award is based on the placement of ICON winners across the various awards categories. In total, ICON was recognised in nine categories.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Global Medical Communications (GMC) teams have won a 2024 Viddy Award. 

The GMC Showreel Video has been honored with a GOLD Award in the Non-Broadcast | Short Form Web Videos < 3 Minutes | Marketing category.

Watch the video here

ICON was recognised for Excellence in Use of Real-World Data/Evidence at the Citeline Awards 2024, for its AI solution Cassandra.

The judges noted that “powered by real world data and evidence and AI, ICON developed an innovative and pragmatic system to help trial sponsors predict future post-marketing regulatory requirements and develop strategies to mitigate or eliminate those requirements early-on in their programs”.

HumanFirst, an ICON plc company, has been named Best Clinical Trial Technology Solution Provider at the 2024 MedTech Breakthrough Awards.

These awards recognise the top companies, people, platforms and products in the health, fitness and medical technology industries.

Accellacare, ICON’s site network, was named Best Clinical Trial Network at the 2024 Vaccine Industry Excellence Awards. These awards recognise outstanding efforts and positive contributions of organisations and individuals in the vaccine industry.

ICON has been named as one of the best workplaces to grow your career in Ireland, featuring on the LinkedIn Top Companies 2024 list.

ICON has been named Social & Equality Business of the Year at the 2024 PwC Business Post Sustainable Business Awards.

The EUTHYROX® Omnichannel Campaign has won the 2023 Rx Club Show Award of Excellence in the print, interactive and video category. This recognition underscores ICON’s in-house Creative & Digital Services team’s commitment to delivering high-quality, impactful campaigns.

The Frost & Sullivan Institute has presented ICON with an Enlightened Growth Leadership Award, 2023. The awards identify companies that have embraced emerging technologies, generated opportunities for all, while demonstrating best practices for sustainable growth.

ICON has been recognised in the Financial Times Leaders in Diversity Awards, for the second year running.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Solutions teams have won two 2023 Health + Wellness Design Award honors from Graphic Design USA in the Brochures + Collateral category for the UNITAS and KICK study materials.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Real World Evidence teams have won a 2023 Health + Wellness Design Award honor from Graphic Design USA for the IPIG PNH Registry logo in the Branding + Identity + Logos category.

ICON has been recognised by Forbes as one of the world’s top companies for women in 2023.

ICON wins ‘Company of the Year’ and success for ICON staff in numerous categories including Global Project Manager, Clinical trial Manager, Start-Up Singles, Global Project Team, Global Partnership Team.

Craig McLendon and ICON's Independent Data Monitoring Committee and Endpoint Adjudication (IDEA) group have been recognised for their efforts to optimise and accelerate clinical trial processes by enabling collaboration and innovation.

ICON has been recognised in the Forbes World’s Best Employers list for 2023. It is the third consecutive year that ICON has been recognised for this award. ICON is the only CRO to feature in the ‘Drugs and Biotechnology’ industry sector.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Solutions team have won a 2023 Gold MarCom Award in the Strategic Communications | Communications/Public Relations | Research/Study category. The UNITAS Study Materials have gained their second win this year with a GOLD Award.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and IEV teams have won a 2023 Gold MarCom Award in the Strategic Communications | Marketing/Promotion Campaign | Integrated Marketing category for the EUTHYROX® Omnichannel Campaign.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Real World Evidence team have won a 2023 Platinum MarCom Award in the Creativity | Design | Logo category. The IPIG PNH Registry logo has gained its second win this year.

The awards recognise the most inspiring leaders in the life sciences space.

In partnership with Statista, TIME looked at three evaluation criteria to determine the companies that would feature on the list – employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability.

ICON has been recognised as a Silver Stevie Award winner in the 21st Annual Business Awards for our artificial intelligence tool, Cassandra.

ICON has been named a recipient of a 2023 CRO Leadership Award in the following categories:

• Capabilities (Overall, Small Pharma)
• Compatibility (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Expertise (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Quality (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)
• Reliability (Overall, Big Pharma, Small Pharma)

ICON was the most awarded CRO across over 20 performance metrics.

ICON has been rated a 'Top performer' for ‘Therapeutic Expertise’, 'Operational Excellence' and 'Meeting project timelines'.

ICON has been rated 'Exceed customer expectations' for 'Data quality' and 'Technology for access to data'.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and Insights, Evidence & Value teams won a gold award in the branded content category for the EUTHYROX® Promotional Video.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and PubsHub teams won a gold award in the marketing category for the Journals & Congresses PubsHub Software Solutions Promotional Video.

ICON’s Digital Operations Team was named the “IT Professional Team of the Year” at the Tech Excellence 2023 awards in Ireland.

ICON has been announced as the winner of the Global Impact Award for its role in the search for vaccines and treatments for Covid-19.

ICON has been recognised in the Forbes America’s Best Large Employers list for 2023, the fourth time we’ve featured on the list. 

ICON has been recognised in the Financial Times European Leader In Diversity 2023 Award List, ranked 80 out of 850 companies.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and Insights, Evidence & Value teams won a silver award in the multicultural category for the “What’s Your Reason” Breast Cancer Screening Campaign – Creole.

ICON has won the award for Best Contract Research Organisation - Full-Service Providers at the 2022 Annual SCRIP Awards, for the second year running.

ICON Medical Imaging was recognised with a “Collaboration of the Year” award by Medidata. ICON is the only CRO that is fully accredited on the RAVE Imaging platform. Together we continue to work on delivering a flexible and high quality imaging trial experience for sites, readers, and sponsors.

ICON Plc is the winner of the Data Analytics/Business Intelligence category in the Fierce Innovation Awards – Life Sciences 2022. This award was received in recognition for its One Search tool, which uses intuitive, integrated workflow and artificial intelligence that provides access to multiple data sources to help identify optimum trial sites the first time.

Success for ICON staff in numerous categories including Experienced CRA, Global Project Manager, Start-up, Global Partnership and Project Team.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and Insights, Evidence & Value teams won a gold award in the Print Media/Marketing/Promotion/Materials category for the “We know what Payers want” poster.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Solutions teams won a gold award in the Digital Media/Web Video/Marketing category for the Patient Recruitment Solutions Showreel.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and Insights, Evidence & Value teams won two gold awards for the “What’s Your Reason” Breast Cancer Screening Campaign – Creole in the categories of Communications/Public Relations/Other – Health Equity-Multicultural and Marketing/Promotion Campaign/Branding Refresh.

ICON’s Creative & Digital Services and Insights, Evidence & Value teams win awards from Graphic Design USA

• The ICON Market Access Showreel won in the Sales Promotion category
• “We know what Payers want” poster won in the Poster Design category

To compile this ranking, Forbes partnered with Statista, who surveyed 150,000 full-time and part-time workers from 57 countries.

ICON staff win in numerous categories, including ‘Clinical Research Team’ and ‘Start-Up Team’ at International Clinical Researcher of the Year Awards.

ICON has been recognised in the 2022 CRO Leadership Awards in the Compatibility (Big Pharma) category.

ICON has been recognised as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, for the second year running by Forbes.

ICON has been recognised as a Silver Stevie® Award winner in The 20th annual American Business Awards® in the Cloud Application/Service category for ARCADES, its next generation data integration tool, and as a Bronze winner in the Business or Competitive Intelligence Solution category for IcoNex, which enables greater connection between key opinion leaders working in the same therapeutic area.

ICON has been named Pharma Contract Services Company of the Year at the Pharma Industry Awards 2021.

ICON wins 'Company of the Year' at 2021 Business & Finance Awards.

ICON’s Dr Nuala Murphy is Ireland’s Business Woman of the Year.

ICON has been included in Forbes magazine’s America Best Large Employers list for 2022. 

ICON is proud to announce it was named the "Best Contract Research Organisation" of 2021 during the 17th Annual Scrip Awards ceremony on 2 December.

Forbes ranks ICON amongst the best employers in the world.

ICON is awarded the Best Irish Company in France 2021, recognising the significant contribution our French colleagues have made to our business in France and globally.

ICON's Creative and Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Services won a PLATINUM AWARD honour for the RISE Study Materials and a GOLD AWARD honour for the GRADIENT Study Materials.

ICON's Creative and Digital Services and PMAR teams won a PLATINUM AWARD honour for the INGREZZA Roadmap Materials and a GOLD AWARD honour for XOLAIR Launch Materials.

ICON's Adam Kondos, Senior Creative Manager in Creative & Digital Services, won an Individual Achievement award.

ICON wins Clinical Research Company of the Year. Several of ICON’s associates were also recognised in the awards this year, both in team awards and for individual awards.

Staff from PRA Health Sciences, an ICON plc company, win in numerous categories, including ‘Clinical Research Team’ at International Clinical Researcher of the Year Awards.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services team has won a platinum award honor from the Viddy Awards for the ICON Omnichannel Explainer Video.

ICON's Chief Innovation Officer, Kent Thoelke was recently named in this year's PharmaVOICE 100 Most Inspiring people.

Kent was recognised in the Commanders & Chiefs category. Commanders & Chiefs are “forward-thinking leaders inspiring their teams to achieve far-reaching goals and strategically positioning their companies for success as they navigate complex industry challenges.” 

 

ICON's Patient Recruitment Services team wins Best In Class award in the healthcare category for the ICON Study Match website.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services team wins Best In Class award in the pharmaceutical category for the Pneumococcal Vaccine Study website.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Global Medical Communications teams win awards from Graphic Design USA.

• The Pfizer BNT162b2 COVID Vaccine Manuscript Plain Language Summary won in the Special: COVID-19 Communications category.
• The Pfizer Abstract Plain Language Summary Collection won in the Infographics category.

Forbes ranks ICON in America’s Best Employers For Diversity.

ICON wins Best CRO at the Vaccine Industry Excellence Awards for the third time. Award recognises ICON’s long-standing vaccine development expertise. 

ICON's Creative and Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Services have won a PLATINUM AWARD honor in the cateogry of Strategic Communications | Communications/Public Relations, from the MarCom Awards for the Pneumococcal Vaccine Study Materials, sponsored by a global pharma company.

ICON's Creative and Digital Services and Medical Communications team won a GOLD AWARD honor in the category Print Design, from the MarCom Awards for the scientific poster presented at IDWeek 2019, sponsored by a global pharma company.

ICON was recognised again for the second consecutive year in the Forbes 2020 List of America’s Best Employers for Women.

ICON's Creative & Digital Services and Patient Recruitment Services won a Video Production Excellence honour from the 24th Annual Videographer Awards for “The RECOVER Study Explained”. This video appears on the RECOVER STUDY for treatment resistant depression site, sponsored by LivaNova.

Forbes ranks ICON in America’s Best Employers For Diversity. Read more.

The PharmaVOICE 100 celebrates the most influential and inspirational leaders from across all sectors of the life-sciences industry. 

In previous years, the following ICON staff were recognised :

Nuala Murphy, 2018
Bill Byrom, 2017
​Cindy Dukes, 2016
Willie Muehlhausen, 2015
Ciaran Murray, 2014
Bill Taaffe, 2011
Steve Cutler, 2011
Brendan Buckley, 2010
David Pasta, 2009

ICON is thrilled to win Gold with Biohaven Pharma, at the PM360 Pharma Choice Awards for the M-Star Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) patient campaign, designed to provide information in multiple formats and encourage study enrolment.

ICON's Creative and Digital Services won Silver at the PM360 Pharma Choice Awards for their work on the Merck Bridion® Cost Calculator App.

ICON wins Best Contract Research Organisation - Full Service Providers at the annual Scrip Awards 2019. ICON had previously won this award in 2017.

ICON Medical Imaging were recognised for their collaboration in technology at Medidata NEXT NYC 2019.

ICON Creative and Digital services is a Platinum Winner, Digital Video Creation - Animation for the Wave Life Sciences Oligonucleotide Mechanism of Action Video

ICON Creative and Digital services is a Gold Winner, Strategic Communications Research Study for the Biohaven Pharmaceutical Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) Clinical Trial Recruitment

ICON Creative and Digital services received Honorable Mention, Strategic Communications Product Launch for the Strategic Communications Product Launch for Sage Therapeutics Zulresso

Pharma Contract Services Company of the Year Award at Pharma Awards Ireland.
 

ICON wins the Site Patient Recruitment Innovation Award (SPRIA) - the award recognises sites that utilise strategies to achieve enrollment success. Two of the three finalists were the EMEA (MediNova) and N America (PMG Research) parts of ICON's global site network.

ICON recognised in Forbes' 2019 List of America’s Best Employers for Women.

ICON site network, PMG Research win silver at the Site Team of the Year Award

ICON won the Clinical Research Team of the Year Award and Best in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Award at the 2019 Clinical and Research Excellence (CARE) Awards.

ICON ranked top CRO in anonymous survey of 50,000 employees across 38 sectors.

ICON wins in the Healthcare Provider Website category for creative and digitial services on the Neurocrince INBRACE Support Program.

ICON wins 'Pharma Contract Services Company of the Year' for the second time

ICON's Creative and Digital team won platinum in the Digital Media category for their redesign of the Managed Care Magazine website at the 2018 MarCom Awards. 

ICON is awarded a Health & Wellness Design Award from Graphic Design USA for Best Integrated Campaign for its work on a Disease Awareness campaign.

ICON wins at the International Award of Excellence in Pharma awards, hosted in association with the 2018 Pharmacovigilance Europe Congress.

ICON is awarded a Videographer Award by judges from the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP). The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards.

Miranda Dollen, Vice President, Pharmacovigilance, is recognised at the International Award of Excellence in Pharma Awards, hosted in association with the 2018 Pharmacoviglance Europe Congress.

Lee Termini, President, US Market Access & Reimbursement, is recognised as a Transformational Leader for his work in bringing value to market access and reimbursement.

ICON named by Forbes as one of the best employers in America. 

ICON awarded CRO Leadership Award by Life Science Leader and ISR, in recognition of specialised real world evidence and late phase services.

ICON wins the 'Delivering Differently' Company Team of the Year Award

ICON site network, PMG Research win silver at the Site Team of the Year Award

2018 Clinical and Research Excellence (CARE) Awards, AMAG and ICON win Clinical Research Team of the Year

ICON Wins Best Contract Research Organisation at the annual Scrip Awards 2017.

ICON's Creative and Digital team (formerly MediMedia) won gold in the Digital Media Mobile App category for their work on a Patient Support Program at the 2017 MarCom Awards. 

ICON's Creative and Digital team (formerly MediMedia Managed Markets) is awarded gold for the Best Use of Data Analytics at the 2017 Medical Marketing & Media (MM&M) Healthcare Awards. 

ICON FIRECREST was awarded gold in the International eLearning Awards in the blended learning category. 

ICON FIRECREST received a silver award for digital animation at the Summit International Awards.

ICON and Regeneron win Best Partnership in Clinical Research Award from PharmaTimes. 

ICON named by Forbes as one of the best employers in America. 

ICON awarded 'Best CRO' in Vaccine Development.

ICON's MediMedia Solutions wins the Gold Award at the Pharma Choice Awards. 

ICON wins 'Company of the Year' at 2016 Business & Finance Awards. 

ICON wins ‘Pharma Contract Services Company of the Year’.

Pfizer win the 2016 Customer Innovator Award for use of ICON’s Firecrest technology.

ICON wins a bronze award in the category ‘Most Innovative Company of the Year in Europe’.

ICON’s Innovation team win a first place gold award in the category Media: Internal/Employee Communications for the launch video for Spark, ICON’s innovation crowd sourcing platform.

ICON's Firecrest Patient Portal received a Silver Award of Distinction in the website-health category in the 22nd Annual Communicator Awards.

ICON and Pfizer honoured as Clinical Research Team of the Year.

ICON shortlisted as 'Best CRO' and ICON site network PMG Research shortlisted as 'Best Clinical Trial Site or Network'.

ICON recognised as a leading CRO in the Innovation category.

Informatica Innovation Award for Improved Decisions Using ICONIK.

ICON recognised as a leading CRO in the Innovation, Quality, Productivity and Reliability categories.

Partnership Pioneers of the Year in Clinical Trials 2013.