Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Sabin Vaccine Institute |
Reward(s) | medal |
First awarded | 1994 |
Last awarded | 2021 |
Currently held by | Barney S. Graham |
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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2021 | Barney S. Graham | work in research, development, and advocacy of vaccinations, including key contributions to COVID-19 vaccines [1] [2] |
2020 | Gordon Dougan | work in research, development, and advocacy of vaccinations [1] [3] |
2019 | Carol J. Baker | group B Streptococcus vaccine research and advocacy of immunization for expectant mothers [1] [4] |
2018 | Paul Offit | oral rotavirus vaccine work, leadership in promoting immunization [1] [5] |
2017 | Jan Holmgren | oral vaccine research, mucosal immunology, first effective oral vaccine for cholera [1] [6] [7] |
2016 | George R. Siber | pneumococcus vaccine, H. influenzae type b vaccine, meningococcus vaccine [1] [8] [9] |
2015 | Roger I. Glass | work on preventing gastroenteritis caused by rotaviruses and noroviruses [1] [10] [11] |
2014 | Mathuram Santosham | work on preventing H. influenzae type b [1] [12] [13] |
2013 | Anne A. Gershon | work on preventing childhood disease [1] [14] |
2012 | F. Marc LaForce | work on eliminating meningitis in Africa [1] [15] [16] |
2011 | Douglas R. Lowy and John T. Schiller | work on cancer prevention vaccines [1] [17] [18] |
2010 | John D. Clemens | work on using vaccines to reduce suffering and promote peace [1] [19] [20] |
2009 | Rino Rappuoli | discovery of reverse vaccinology [1] [21] [22] |
2008 | Ruth S. Nussenzweig | work on researching malaria [1] [23] [24] |
2007 | Hilary Koprowski | work in biomedical research in the 20th century [1] [25] [26] |
2006 | William H. Foege | work on improving childhood survival rates [1] [27] [28] |
2005 | Albert Z. Kapikian | research on human gastroenteritis virus [1] [29] [30] |
2004 | William S. Jordan, Jr. | work on vaccine research [1] [31] [32] |
2003 | Samuel L. Katz | work on vaccines for pediatric infectious diseases [1] [33] [34] |
2002 | Stanley A. Plotkin | work on wiping out rubella [1] [35] [36] |
2001 | John B. Robbins | reducing childhood mortality from multiple diseases [1] [37] [38] |
2000 | Ciro A. de Quadros | work on worldwide eradication of smallpox and polio in the Western Hemisphere [1] [39] [40] |
1999 | Philip K. Russell | work on infectious disease [1] [41] |
1998 | Allen C. Steere | discovery of Lyme disease and further research on Lyme disease [1] |
1998 | Myron M. Levine | education and mentorship [1] [42] |
1997 | Maurice R. Hilleman | worked on development of "more vaccines than any other person in history" [1] [43] [44] |
1996 | Joseph L. Melnick | education and vaccine research [1] [32] |
1995 | Robert M. Chanock | identification of respiratory syncytial virus [1] [45] [46] |
1994 | Donald A. Henderson | direction of WHO campaign to eradicate smallpox [1] [47] |
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co-edited several scientific journals.
Donald Ainslie Henderson was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort (1967–1977) that eradicated smallpox throughout the world and launched international childhood vaccination programs. From 1977 to 1990, he was Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Later, he played a leading role in instigating national programs for public health preparedness and response following biological attacks and national disasters. At the time of his death, he was Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as Distinguished Scholar at the UPMC Center for Health Security.
Stanley Alan Plotkin is an American physician who works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Plotkin was a member of Wistar’s active research faculty from 1960 to 1991. Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, he is emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. His book, Vaccines, is the standard reference on the subject. He is an editor with Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, which is published by the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C.
Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, former chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992–2014), and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Albert Zaven Kapikian (1930–2014) was an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants. He was awarded the Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine. He is the 13th recipient of this recognition, awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute. Called the father of human gastroenteritis virus research, Kapikian identified the first norovirus, initially called Norwalk virus, in 1972; and he and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health identified the hepatitis A virus in 1973.
Ciro Carlos Araujo de Quadros was a Brazilian leader in the field of Public Health, in particular, the area of vaccines and preventable diseases. He was born in Rio Pardo, Brazil.
John Bennett Robbins was a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), best known for his contribution to the development of the vaccine against bacterial meningitis Hib)) with his colleague Rachel Schneerson. He conducted research on the Bethesda, Maryland campus of the NIH from 1970 until his retirement at the age of 80 in 2012. During his tenure, he worked in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Food and Drug Administration’s biologics laboratories on location.
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Katherine "Kate" L. O'Brien is a Canadian American pediatric infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and vaccinologist who specializes in the areas of pneumococcal epidemiology, pneumococcal vaccine trials and impact studies, and surveillance for pneumococcal disease. She is also known as an expert in infectious diseases in American Indian populations. O’Brien is currently the Director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals.
Samuel Lawrence Katz was an American pediatrician and virologist whose career has been devoted to infectious disease research, focusing principally on vaccine research and development. Katz was the Wilburt Cornell Davison Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at Duke University.
Robert Merritt Chanock was an American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Robert Palmer Beasley was an American physician, public health educator and epidemiologist whose work on hepatitis B involved extensive investigations in Taiwan. That work established that hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a primary cause of liver cancer and that hepatitis B virus is transmitted from mother to infant during childbirth. Beasley and his colleagues also proved that HBV mother-to-infant transmission is preventable by at-birth vaccination. Due to this work, the World Health Assembly designated HBV as the seventh global vaccine in 1992. He later became the author of HBV immunization policies for the World Health Organization.
Douglas R. Lowy is the current Principal Deputy Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Chief of the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology within the Center for Cancer Research at NCI. Lowy served as Acting Director of NCI between April 2015 and October 2017 following the resignation of Harold E. Varmus, M.D., and again between April and November 2019, while Director Norman Sharpless served as the Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He resumed the role of Acting Director on May 1, 2022, when Sharpless stepped down until October 3, 2022 when Monica Bertagnolli was appointed Director. He resumed the role again in November 2023 after Bertagnolli resigned to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health.
Barry R. Bloom is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Global Health and Population in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, where he served as dean of the faculty from 1998 through December 31, 2008.
Sabin Vaccine Institute, located in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit organization promoting global vaccine development, availability, and use. Through its work, Sabin hopes to reduce human suffering by preventing the spread of vaccine-preventable, communicable disease in humans through herd immunity and mitigating the poverty caused by these diseases.
Roger I. Glass is an American physician-scientist who served as the Director of the John E. Fogarty International Center.
Mathuram Santosham is an Indian American physician who is Professor and Chair at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Santosham is best known for his work on oral rehydration therapy and childhood vaccines, with a focus on supporting people from indigenous communities.
Anne Gershon is an infectious disease researcher and professor of pediatrics at Columbia University. She is best known for her work on the varicella-zoster virus, the causative agent for chickenpox. In the 1970s, she ran clinical trials for the varicella vaccine which showed that the vaccine was safe for children with leukemia. She also developed the first sensitive test for chickenpox.
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