Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Sabin Vaccine Institute |
Reward(s) | medal |
First award | 1994 |
Final award | 2024 |
Currently held by | Keith Klugman and Shabir Madhi |
Website | www |
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]
Year | Recipient | Related work |
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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 | 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 | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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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