FEMS-Lwoff Award

Launched in 2000, the FEMS-Lwoff Award rewards those that create high quality knowledge that helps to solve today’s societal problems around microbiology. It was named in honour of the 1st FEMS President (1974-1976), Professor André M. Lwoff.

Winners receive:

• a prize-lecture at the opening ceremony of the FEMS Congress – with up to five free registrations to the FEMS Congress
• the opportunity to present research to the wider microbiology community via the FEMS Journals and FEMS communication channels
• a commemorative silver medal
• a working replica of an Antonie van Leeuwenhoek microscope 
• an honorarium of €1000

Making a nomination

Everyone in the field of microbiology (societies, groups, or individuals) may nominate a Lwoff Award candidate (before 10 March 2020) to be presented at the FEMS2021 Congress

Do you know anyone – either an individual or a group – that has provided outstanding service to microbiology in Europe? Have they done something that deserves recognition? Then why not nominate them for the FEMS-Lwoff Award?

Additional information about the selection procedure can be found in the FEMS-Lwoff Award regulations. You can send your nomination in via the FEMS-Lwoff nomination form.

FEMS-Lwoff awardees
2019 Awardee	2017 Awardee
Prof. P. Cossart, France Prize Lecture: The model organism Listeria monocytogenes: towards the complete understanding of it physiology and its virulence Venue: Glasgow, Scotland, 8th FEMS Congress – Watch our interview with Pascale Cossart	Prof. J. Errington, United Kingdom Prize Lecture: Cell wall deficient (L-form) bacteria: from chronic infections to the origins of life Venue: Valencia, Spain, 7th FEMS Congress
2015 Awardees
Prof. F. Baquero, Spain Prize Lecture: Transmission: a basic process in Microbiology Venue: Maastricht, The Netherlands, 6th FEMS Congress Date: 11 June 2015	Prof R.K. Thauer, Germany Prize Lecture: The microbial methane cycle Venue: Maastricht, The Netherlands, 6th FEMS Congress Date: 11 June 2015
2013 Awardee	2011 Awardee
Prof. Juan Luis Ramos, Granada Prize Lecture: Mechanism of Solvent Tolerance in Gram Negative Bacteria Venue: Leipzig, Germany, 5th FEMS Congress Date: 25 July 2013	Miroslav Radman, Croatia Venue: Geneva, Switzerland, 4th FEMS Congress Date: 30 June 2011
2009 Awardee	2006 Awardee
Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Germany Prize Lecture:  Classification of Bacteria: From Unicellular Plants to the Age of Genomics Venue: Gothenburg, Sweden, at the occasion of the 3rd FEMS Congress Date: 1 July 2009	Jorg Hacker, Germany Prize Lecture:  Evolution in Microbial Pathogens Venue: Madrid, Spain, at the occasion of the 2nd FEMS Congress Date: 6 July 2006
2003 Awardee	2000 Awardee
Prof. Sir David A. Hopwood, United Kingdom Prize Lecture:  Streptomyces Genes in Nature and Medicine Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the occasion of the 1st FEMS Congress Date: 2 July 2003	Prof. Philippe J. Sansonetti, France Prize Lecture:  Rupture, invasion and inflammatory destruction of the intestinal barrier by Shigella, making sense of prokaryote-eukaryote cross-talks. Venue: Sevilla, Spain, at the occasion of the FEMS Jubilee Date: 15 September 2000