Stanley Falkow

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Stanley Falkow (born January 24, 1934 in Albany , NY - † May 5, 2018 in Portola Valley , California ) was an American microbiologist . Falkow is considered the founder of the discipline of "Molecular Microbial Pathogenicity Research". He was Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University in Stanford , California.

Stanley Falkow (2009)

Life

Falkow studied biology and received his PhD from the University of Maine in 1955 . His early work focused on research into antibiotic resistance and the role of plasmids in transmitting resistance. His later work on medical microbiology is of paramount importance for the entire field. When examining the pathogens of a wide variety of bacterial diseases, Falkow obtained fundamental findings that u. a. also in the development of new vaccines z. B. received against the whooping cough pathogen Bordetella pertussis .

Falkow published several hundred scientific articles. He was the editor of several scientific journals. For his work he received a. a. the following prizes and honors: the Bristol Myers Squibb Prize , the Altemeier Medal , the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award , the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize , the Maxwell Finland Prize , the Abbott Lifetime Achievement Prize of the American Society for Microbiology and the 2003 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he received the Robert Koch Prize and in 2008 the Lasker Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science . He also received honorary doctorates in Europe and the USA. In early 2016 he was awarded the National Medal of Science .

From 1997 to 1998, Falkow was President of the American Society for Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

literature

  • VL Miller, JB Kaper, DA Portnoy, RR Isberg (Ed.): Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis - A tribute to Stanley Falkow. ASM Press, Washington DC 1994.
  • Denise Monack and Evelyn Strauss: Stanley Falkow (1934-2018). In: Science . Volume 360, No. 6393, 2018, p. 1077, doi: 10.1126 / science.aau2284
  • Manuel R. Amieva: Stanley Falkow (1934-2018). Microbe hunter who uncovered how bacteria cause disease. In: Nature . Volume 558, 2018, p. 190, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-018-05377-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krista Conger: Renowned microbe hunter Stanley Falkow dies at 84th Stanford School of Medicine, May 10, 2018, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Stanley Falkow. National Academy of Sciences, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology at nasonline.org; accessed on January 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Falkow, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American microbiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany (New York)
DATE OF DEATH 5th May 2018
Place of death Portola Valley , California