Lwoff Award
The Lwoff Award of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) has been presented every two years for achievements in microbiology since 2000 . It is endowed with 1000 euros and a silver medal and the winner will give a lecture at the FEMS congress.
The award is named in honor of André Lwoff .
Award winners
Prize winners with the title of their lecture:
- 2000 Philippe J. Sansonetti (Rupture, invasion and inflammatory destruction of the intestinal barrier by Shigella, making sense of prokaryote-eukaryote cross-talks)
- 2003 David A. Hopwood (Streptomyces Genes in Nature and Medicine)
- 2006 Jörg Hacker (Evolution in Microbial Pathogens)
- 2009 Karl-Heinz Schleifer (Classification of Bacteria: From Unicellular Plants to the Age of Genomics)
- 2011 Miroslav Radman
- 2013 Juan Luis Ramos (Mechanism of Solvent Tolerance in Gram Negative Bacteria)
- 2015 Fernando Baquero (Transmission: a basic process in Microbiology) , Rolf Thauer (The microbial methane cycle)
- 2017 Jeff Errington (Cell wall deficient (L-form) bacteria: from chronic infections to the origins of life)
- 2019 Pascale Cossart (The model organism Listeria monocytogenes: towards the complete understanding of it physiology and its virulence)