Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal

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Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal
Country United States
Presented bySabin Vaccine Institute
Reward(s)medal
First awarded1994
Last awarded2024
Currently held byKeith Klugman and Shabir Madhi
Website www.sabin.org/sabin-gold-medal-award

Since 1994, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal has been awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute in recognition of work in the field of vaccinology or a complementary field. It is in commemoration of the pioneering work of Albert B. Sabin. [1]

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Recipients

List of recipients
YearRecipientRelated work
2024 Keith P. Klugman, Shabir A. Madhi work demonstrating the efficacy of vaccines to protect children and pregnant women in LMICs. [2]
2023 Thomas P. Monath work on several innovative vaccines including those for Ebola Zaire, smallpox, West Nile virus, Zika and influenza.
2022 Kathrin Jansen Commitment to advancing vaccine research and development (R&D) for a range of challenging diseases from COVID-19 to HPV and pneumonia.
2021 Barney S. Graham work in research, development, and advocacy of vaccinations, including key contributions to COVID-19 vaccines [1] [3]
2020 Gordon Dougan work in research, development, and advocacy of vaccinations [1] [4]
2019 Carol J. Baker group B Streptococcus vaccine research and advocacy of immunization for expectant mothers [1] [5]
2018 Paul Offit oral rotavirus vaccine work, leadership in promoting immunization [1] [6]
2017 Jan Holmgren oral vaccine research, mucosal immunology, first effective oral vaccine for cholera [1] [7] [8]
2016 George R. Siber pneumococcus vaccine, H. influenzae type b vaccine, meningococcus vaccine [1] [9] [10]
2015 Roger I. Glass work on preventing gastroenteritis caused by rotaviruses and noroviruses [1] [11] [12]
2014 Mathuram Santosham work on preventing H. influenzae type b [1] [13] [14]
2013 Anne A. Gershon work on preventing childhood disease [1] [15]
2012 F. Marc LaForce  [ Wikidata ]work on eliminating meningitis in Africa [1] [16] [17]
2011 Douglas R. Lowy and John T. Schiller work on cancer prevention vaccines [1] [18] [19]
2010 John D. Clemens  [ Wikidata ]work on using vaccines to reduce suffering and promote peace [1] [20] [21]
2009 Rino Rappuoli discovery of reverse vaccinology [1] [22] [23]
2008 Ruth S. Nussenzweig work on researching malaria [1] [24] [25]
2007 Hilary Koprowski work in biomedical research in the 20th century [1] [26] [27]
2006 William H. Foege work on improving childhood survival rates [1] [28] [29]
2005 Albert Z. Kapikian research on human gastroenteritis virus [1] [30] [31]
2004 William S. Jordan, Jr.  [ Wikidata ]work on vaccine research [1] [32] [33]
2003 Samuel L. Katz work on vaccines for pediatric infectious diseases [1] [34] [35]
2002 Stanley A. Plotkin work on wiping out rubella [1] [36] [37]
2001 John B. Robbins reducing childhood mortality from multiple diseases [1] [38] [39]
2000 Ciro A. de Quadros work on worldwide eradication of smallpox and polio in the Western Hemisphere [1] [40] [41]
1999 Philip K. Russell  [ Wikidata ]work on infectious disease [1] [42]
1998 Allen C. Steere discovery of Lyme disease and further research on Lyme disease [1]
1998 Myron M. Levine  [ de ]education and mentorship [1] [43]
1997 Maurice R. Hilleman worked on development of "more vaccines than any other person in history" [1] [44] [45]
1996 Joseph L. Melnick education and vaccine research [1] [33]
1995 Robert M. Chanock identification of respiratory syncytial virus [1] [46] [47]
1994 Donald A. Henderson direction of WHO campaign to eradicate smallpox [1] [48]

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