Awards
Our awards recognise that scientific excellence can be found across our diverse community and at all stages of a scientific career.
FEMS presents the following awards:
- FEMS-Lwoff Award for Achievements in Microbiology – rewarding those that create high quality knowledge that helps to solve today’s societal problems around microbiology
- FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award – supporting the reciprocal exchange of one member from each organization to present their research at the other organization’s main conference
- FEMS-ESCMID Award – out of the FEMS Research and Training Grantees, the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) annually selects one grantee for an additional award of € 1000
- FEMS-Jensen Award – supporting Early Career Scientists and microbiologists in particular
- FEMS Outstanding Early Career Microbiologist Award – promoting and supporting excellent science
- FEMS Science Communication Award – stimulating and awarding impactful microbiology communication campaigns
- FEMS Special Merit – rewarding those who have made special contributions to further the objectives of FEMS
FEMS JOURNALS investing in science
The FEMS Journals present several awards each year:
- Article Awards – the FEMS Journals and Oxford University Press recognise the best papers submitted to the journals each year
- Poster & Oral Presentation Prizes – the FEMS Journals award Poster & Oral Presentation Prizes to the best presenters at a range of microbiology events that we support