The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennial scientific prize sponsored by the

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and awarded since 1980 by the

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(UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

(including immunology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.) and its applications. Winners receive a grant of $5,000

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donated by the Government of Cuba and an Albert Einstein Silver Medal from UNESCO. The Prize is awarded in odd years (to coincide with UNESCO's General Conference) and is named after

Carlos Juan Finlay Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes ''Aedes aegypti''. Biography Early life and ...

(1833 – 1915), a

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n physician and microbiologist widely known for his pioneering discoveries in the field of

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Winners

Source
UNESCO
* 1980 - Roger Y. Stanier (Canada) * 1983 -

César Milstein César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for d ...

, FRS (Argentina, United Kingdom) * 1985 - Victor Nussenzweig and

Ruth Nussenzweig Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig (20 June 1928 – 1 April 2018) was an Austrian-Brazilian immunologist specializing in the development of malaria vaccines. In a career spanning over 60 years, she was primarily affiliated with New York University (NYU). ...

(Brazil) * 1987 - Hélio Gelli Pereira (Brazil) and Peter Reichard (Sweden) * 1989 - Georges Cohen (France) and

Walter Fiers Walter Fiers (31 January 1931 in Ypres, West Flanders – 28 July 2019 in Destelbergen) was a Belgian molecular biologist. He obtained a degree of Engineer for Chemistry and Agricultural Industries at the University of Ghent in 1954, and started ...

(Belgium) * 1991 - Margarita Salas and

Eladio Viñuela Eladio or Eládio is a given name, the Spanish equivalent of Helladius. Notable people with that name include. Entertainment * Eládio Clímaco (born 1941), Portuguese television presenter * Eladio Lárez (born 1941), Venezuelan businessperson and ...

(Spain) and Jean-Marie Ghuysen (Belgium) * 1993 -

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, James Michael Lynch (UK),

James Tiedje James Michael Tiedje (born 1942) is University Distinguished Professor and the director of the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (CME) at Michigan State University, as well as a Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences and Microbiology. He was elected ...

(USA),

Johannes Antonie Van Veen Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...

(Netherlands) * 1995 -

Jan Balzarini Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

(Belgium) and

Pascale Cossart Pascale Cossart (born 21 March 1948) is a French bacteriologist who is affiliated with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She is the foremost authority on ''Listeria monocytogenes'', a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephal ...

(France) * 1996 -

Etienne Pays Etienne Pays (born 2 November 1948) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. His research interest is on trypanosomes. He obtained a PhD in Zoology from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 197 ...

(Belgium) and

Sheikh Riazzudin Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

(Pakistan) * 1999 -

Ádám Kondorosi Adam is a common masculine given name in the English language, of Hebrew origin. According to the Bible, the personal name ''Adam'' derives from the noun ''adamah'' meaning "the ground" or "earth". But it is likely folk etymology. Its Biblical a ...

(Hungary) * 2001 - Susana López Charreton and

Carlos Arias Ortiz Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz is a Mexican biochemist specialized in rotaviri. Along his wife, Susana López Charretón, he has been a co-recipient of both the 2001 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology. A ...

(Mexico) * 2003 -

Antonio Peña Díaz Antonio Peña Díaz (born in 1936) is a Mexican biochemist who received the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2003) and chaired both the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1992–93) and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry (1981–83). ...

(Mexico) * 2005 - Khatijah Binti Mohamad Yusoff (Malaysia) * 2015 -

Yoshihiro Kawaoka is a virologist specializing in the study of the influenza and Ebola viruses. He holds a professorship in virology in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and at the University of Tokyo, Japan. ...

(Japan) * 2017 -

Samir Kumar Saha Samir Kumar Saha (born 28 December 1955) is an eminent Bangladeshi microbiologist and public health expert. He is the professor, senior consultant and head of the department of Diagnostic Division of Microbiology at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital fo ...

(Bangladesh) and Shahida Hasnain (Pakistan) *2020 - Kenya Honda (Japan)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Finlay Prize for Microbiology Biology awards UNESCO awards Awards established in 1980

Winners

See also

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