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 awarded2021
Currently held by Barney S. Graham
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
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  [ Wikidata ]work on eliminating meningitis in Africa [1] [15] [16]
2011 Douglas R. Lowy and John T. Schiller  [ de ]work on cancer prevention vaccines [1] [17] [18]
2010 John D. Clemens  [ Wikidata ]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.  [ Wikidata ]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  [ Wikidata ]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  [ de ]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]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Sabin</span> Medical researcher

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hilary Koprowski</span> Polish-Jewish-American physician, virologist, immunologist and medical researcher

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donald Henderson</span> American physician

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stanley Plotkin</span> American physician

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Offit</span> American pediatric immunologist

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Foege</span> American physician and epidemiologist

William Herbert Foege is an American physician and epidemiologist who is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s". From May 1977 to 1983, Foege served as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Kapikian</span> Armenian-American virologist

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ciro de Quadros</span> Brazilian physician

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Hotez</span> American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate

Peter Jay Hotez is an American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control. He serves as founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics, and University Professor of Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katherine O'Brien</span> Canadian-born pediatric physician (born 1963)

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert M. Chanock</span> American pediatrician and virologist

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Douglas R. Lowy</span>

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roger I. Glass</span> American physician-scientist

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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