The Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award was a scientific award presented annually by the
American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It ...
(ASM) and sponsored by the
Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in 18 countries. Its products are sold in approximately 125 countries. The company was founded in 1876 by, and named after, Colonel ...
and its subsidiary
Elanco
Elanco Animal Health Incorporated is an American pharmaceutical company which produces medicines and vaccinations for pets and livestock. Until 2019, the company was a subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company, before being divested. It is the third ...
(which became an independent company in 2019).
The prize was first awarded in 1936. Recipients were given 5000
US dollars
The United States dollar (Currency symbol, symbol: Dollar sign, $; ISO 4217, code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from Dollar, other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American ...
(as of 2011). It honored young scientists under the age of 45. The award's purpose was not to compare the research of the younger scientists to the research of older scientists, but to encourage originality and independent thinking.
The award was discontinued after the last award in 2018. Information about the award can no longer be found on the ASM website.
Recipients
The following people received the Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award:
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* 1936
Harry Eagle
Harry Eagle (July 13, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an American physician and pathologist. He was born in New York City then studied, and later worked, at Johns Hopkins University before moving on to the National Institutes of Health. From 1961 to 1 ...
* 1937
Frank L. Horsfall
* 1938
Jerome T. Syverton
* 1939
John G. Kidd
* 1940
D. Wayne Woolley
* 1941
Alwin M. Pappenheimer
* 1942
Harland G. Wood
* 1945
Esmond E. Snell
Esmond Emerson Snell (September 22, 1914 – December 9, 2003) was an American biochemist who spent his career researching vitamins and nutritional requirements of bacteria and yeast. He is well known for his study of lactic acid-producing bact ...
* 1946
Maclyn McCarty
Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940's and became the first to ...
* 1947
Wayne W. Umbreit
* 1948
Alan W. Bernheimer
* 1949
Elvin A. Kabat
Elvin Abraham Kabat (September 1, 1914 – June 16, 2000) was an American
biomedical scientist and one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry. Kabat was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1 ...
* 1950
Roger Y. Stanier
* 1951
Seymour S. Cohen
* 1952
J. Oliver Lampen
* 1953
Joshua Lederberg
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...
(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1958)
* 1954
James W. Moulder
* 1955
Willis A. Wood
* 1956
Melvin Cohn
* 1957
Henry Koffler
* 1958
W. Wilbur Ackermann
* 1959
Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky (April 17, 1925 – March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanis ...
* 1960
Wallace P. Rowe
* 1961
Harry Rubin
* 1962
Norton D. Zinder
* 1963
John J. Holland
* 1964
Matthew Meselson
Matthew Stanley Meselson (born May 24, 1930) is a geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University, known for his demonstration, with Franklin Stahl, of semi-conservative DNA replication. After completing his Ph.D. under Linus ...
* 1965
Karl Gordon Lark
* 1966
Frederick C. Neidhardt
* 1967
Brian J. McCarthy
* 1968
John J. Cebra
* 1969
David Schlessinger
* 1970
Jonathan R. Beckwith
* 1971
David L. Baltimore (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1975)
* 1972
R. John Collier
R. John Collier (born August 6, 1938) is an American microbiologist and biochemist. He is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, ''Emeritus'' at Harvard Medical School.
Early life and education
Collier was bo ...
* 1973
Leland H. Hartwell
Leland Harrison (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wit ...
(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2001)
* 1974
Joseph R. Kates
* 1975
G. Wesley Hatfield
* 1976
Ronald W. Davis
Ronald Wayne "Ron" Davis (born July 17, 1941) is Professor of Biochemistry & Genetics, and Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University. Davis is a researcher in biotechnology and molecular genetics, particularly activ ...
* 1977
Alice S. Huang
Alice S. Huang (; is an American biologist specialized in microbiology and virology. She served as President of AAAS during the 2010-2011 term.
Early years
Alice Huang's father, Quentin K. Y. Huang, was orphaned at age 12 in Anhui, China and w ...
* 1978
David L. Botstein
* 1979
Winston J. Brill
* 1980
Edward M. Scolnick
* 1981
Tom Maniatis
* 1982
Thomas E. Shenk
* 1983
Ira Herskowitz
* 1984
Linda L. Randall
* 1985
Martha M. Howe
* 1986
Mark M. Davis
Mark Morris Davis (born 27 November 1952) ForMemRS is director and Avery Family Professor of Immunology in the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University.
Education
Davis was educated at Johns Hopkins University ...
* 1987
Randy W. Schekman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2013)
* 1988
Elizabeth H. Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009)
* 1989
Steven L. McKnight
* 1990
Kevin Struhl
* 1991
John J. Mekalanos
* 1992
Vincent Racaniello
Vincent R. Racaniello (born January 2, 1953) is a Higgins Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a co-author of a textbook on virology, ''Principles of Virolo ...
* 1993
Ralph Isberg
Ralph R. Isberg (born January 3, 1955) is a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine known for his contributions to understanding microbial pathogenesis. He is a member of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Microbial ...
* 1994
David H. Beach
* 1995
John J. Monaco
* 1996
Daniel A. Portnoy
* 1997
Alan D. Grossman
* 1998
Scott J. Hultgren
* 1999
John A. T. Young
* 2000
Gisela Storz
* 2001
Tania A. Baker
* 2002
Andrew Camilli
* 2003
Angelika Amon
Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massach ...
* 2004
Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré
* 2005
Ronald R. Breaker
* 2006
Bonnie Lynn Bassler
* 2007
Craig Russell Roy
* 2008
Dianne K. Newman
* 2009
Joseph L. DeRisi
* 2010
Paul Bieniasz
Paul Darren Bieniasz is a British-American virologist whose main area of research is HIV/AIDS. He is currently a professor of retrovirology at the Rockefeller University. He received the 2015 KT Jeang Retrovirology Prize and the 2010 Eli Lilly ...
* 2011
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
* 2012
Akiko Iwasaki
is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. She is also a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research interests include innate immunity, autophag ...
* 2013
Martin Polz
* 2014
Katherine A. Fitzgerald
* 2015
Vanessa Sperandio
* 2016
Erica Ollmann Saphire
* 2017
Harmit Malik
* 2018
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
References
Awards established in 1936
Awards disestablished in 2019
Microbiology awards