FEMS-Lwoff AwardFEMS-Lwoff Award | FEMS-Jensen Award | FEMS Special MeritsInformation
The FEMS-Lwoff Award is given for outstanding service to microbiology in Europe. All fields of microbiology are considered. It is intended as a reward for a person or a group of persons, preferably working and residing in Europe.
The FEMS-Lwoff Award consists of a prize-lecture presented at a FEMS Congress, a medal, and an honorarium of EUR 1 000.
The FEMS-Lwoff Award series was initiated in the year 2000 at the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of FEMS. It was named in honour of the 1st FEMS President (1974-1976), Professor André M. Lwoff.
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Left: Professor André M. Lwoff (1902-1994)
Above: Frontside of the silver FEMS-Lwoff Award Medal.
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The FEMS-Lwoff Award regulations are available in PDF.
FEMS-Lwoff Awardees
FEMS-Lwoff Awardee 2009
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Karl-Heinz Schleifer
Germany
Prize Lecture: Classification of Bacteria: From Unicellular Plants to the Age of Genomics
Venue: Gothenburg, Sweden, at the occasion of the 3rd FEMS Congress
Date: 2009 July 1
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FEMS-Lwoff Awardee 2006
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Jorg Hacker
Germany
Prize Lecture: Evolution in Microbial Pathogens
Venue: Madrid, Spain, at the occasion of the 2nd FEMS Congress
Date: 2006 July 6
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FEMS-Lwoff Awardee 2003
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Professor Sir David A. Hopwood
United Kingdom
Prize Lecture: Streptomyces Genes in Nature and Medicine
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the occasion of the 1st FEMS Congress
Date: 2003 July 2
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FEMS-Lwoff Awardee 2000
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Professor Philippe J. Sansonetti
France
Prize Lecture: Rupture, invasion and inflammatory destruction of the intestinal barrier by Shigella, making sense of prokaryote-eukaryote cross-talks.
Venue: Sevilla, Spain, at the occasion of the FEMS Jubilee (25th anniversary)
Date: 2000 September 16
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