FEMS-Lwoff Award for Achievements in Microbiology

Launched in 2000, the FEMS-Lwoff Award for Achievements in Microbiology 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.

Professor André M. Lwoff (1902-1994)
Professor André M. Lwoff (1902-1994), French microbiologist, 1st FEMS President, and Nobel laureate.
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
  • an honorarium of €1000
Making a nomination

Everyone in the field of microbiology (societies, groups, or individuals) may nominate a Lwoff Award candidate to be presented at the FEMS Congress.

Do you know anyone – either an individual or a group – who 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.

The deadline for nominations close on 10 March 2024, 23:59 CET.

Nominate someone for the FEMS-Lwoff Award

We foster an atmosphere of inclusion and equal opportunities and place a high value on ensuring we reflect the diversity of the microbiological community throughout our organization and in what we do. We warmly welcome nominations that will recognize scientists from underrepresented groups.

FEMS-Lwoff awardees

2023 Awardee

2021 Awardee

Prof. Kenneth Timmis

Prize Lecture: Microbiology Literacy And Human Stewardship Of Planet Earth: The Generational Contract
Venue: Hamburg, Germany, 10th FEMS Congress

Read the Press Release

Prof. E. Charpentier, France

Prize Lecture: Crispr-Cas-9: Transforming Life Sciences Through Bacteria
Venue: World Microbe Forum, Online, 9th FEMS Congress

Read our Spotlight with Emmanuelle Charpentier

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

Jeff Errington, FEMS-Lwoff Awardee 2017Prof. 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

Fernando-BaqueroProf. F. Baquero, Spain

Prize Lecture: Transmission: a basic process in Microbiology
Venue: Maastricht, The Netherlands, 6th FEMS Congress
Date: 11 June 2015

Professor R.K. ThauerProf 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

Professor J.L. RamosProf. 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

K-H. SchleiferKarl-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
J. HackerJorg 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

HopwoodCroppedWeb_030609Prof. 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
000228-1aWeb_SansonettiProf. 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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