Past Awardees

1999 George Klein, MD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

2000 Maurice Hilleman, PhD, Merck Research Laboratories, Sumneytown, Pennsylvania, USA

2001 Hilary Koprowski, MD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2002 Alexander Rich, MD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

2003 Jan Svoboda, PhD, DSc, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic

2004 Paul Zamecnik, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2005 Manfred Eigen, PhD, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany

2006 Maxine Singer, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2008 Isaac P. Witz, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 Rino Rappuoli, PhD, Novartis Vaccines, Sienna, Italy

2011 Max Essex, DVM, PhD, Harvard AIDS Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2012 Thomas A. Waldmann, MD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2013 Vadim I. Agol, MD, PhD, DSc, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2014 William Paul, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2015 Harald zur Hausen, MD, Nobel Laureate, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

2016 Peter Vogt, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

2017 Peter Palese, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA

2004 Stewart Greenebaum, Greenebaum and Rose Associates, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2006 Martin Delaney, Project Inform, San Francisco, California, USA

2008 John D. Evans, Evans Telecommunication Company, Miami, Florida, USA

2009 The Honorable Robert K. Gray, Gray and Company II, Miami, Florida, USA

2010 Harry Huge, Esq., The Harry and Reba Huge Foundation, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

2011 Bernadine Healy, MD, In Memoriam, Former Director National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

2012 Yi Zeng, PhD, China Centers for Disease Control, Beijing, China

2013 José G. Esparza, MD, PhD, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA

2014 John Martin, PhD, Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, California, USA

2015 Anthony S. Fauci, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2016 Ray Schinazi, Ph.D., Hon DSc, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2017 Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Ph.D., CAPRISA, South Africa

2017 Salim S. Abdool Karim, MBChB, Ph.D., DSc., CAPRISA, South Africa

2010 Michele LaPlaca, MD, Institute of Microbiology of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2012 John G. Bartlett, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland