Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal

Since 1994, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal has been awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute in recognition of work in the field of vaccinology or a complementary field. It is in commemoration of the pioneering work of Albert B. Sabin.^[1]

Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal
Country	United States
Presented by	Sabin Vaccine Institute
Reward(s)	medal
First awarded	1994
Last awarded	2024
Currently held by	Keith Klugman and Shabir Madhi
Website	www.sabin.org/sabin-gold-medal-award

Recipients

List of recipients

Year	Recipient	Related work
2024	Keith P. Klugman, Shabir A. Madhi	work demonstrating the efficacy of vaccines to protect children and pregnant women in LMICs.[2]
2023	Thomas P. Monath	work on several innovative vaccines including those for Ebola Zaire, smallpox, West Nile virus, Zika and influenza.
2022	Kathrin Jansen	Commitment to advancing vaccine research and development (R&D) for a range of challenging diseases from COVID-19 to HPV and pneumonia.
2021	Barney S. Graham	work in research, development, and advocacy of vaccinations, including key contributions to COVID-19 vaccines[1][3]
2020	Gordon Dougan	work in research, development, and advocacy of vaccinations[1][4]
2019	Carol J. Baker	group B Streptococcus vaccine research and advocacy of immunization for expectant mothers[1][5]
2018	Paul Offit	oral rotavirus vaccine work, leadership in promoting immunization[1][6]
2017	Jan Holmgren	oral vaccine research, mucosal immunology, first effective oral vaccine for cholera[1][7][8]
2016	George R. Siber	pneumococcus vaccine, H. influenzae type b vaccine, meningococcus vaccine[1][9][10]
2015	Roger I. Glass	work on preventing gastroenteritis caused by rotaviruses and noroviruses[1][11][12]
2014	Mathuram Santosham	work on preventing H. influenzae type b[1][13][14]
2013	Anne A. Gershon	work on preventing childhood disease[1][15]
2012	F. Marc LaForce [Wikidata]	work on eliminating meningitis in Africa[1][16][17]
2011	Douglas R. Lowy and John T. Schiller	work on cancer prevention vaccines[1][18][19]
2010	John D. Clemens [Wikidata]	work on using vaccines to reduce suffering and promote peace[1][20][21]
2009	Rino Rappuoli	discovery of reverse vaccinology[1][22][23]
2008	Ruth S. Nussenzweig	work on researching malaria[1][24][25]
2007	Hilary Koprowski	work in biomedical research in the 20th century[1][26][27]
2006	William H. Foege	work on improving childhood survival rates[1][28][29]
2005	Albert Z. Kapikian	research on human gastroenteritis virus[1][30][31]
2004	William S. Jordan, Jr. [Wikidata]	work on vaccine research[1][32][33]
2003	Samuel L. Katz	work on vaccines for pediatric infectious diseases[1][34][35]
2002	Stanley A. Plotkin	work on wiping out rubella[1][36][37]
2001	John B. Robbins	reducing childhood mortality from multiple diseases[1][38][39]
2000	Ciro A. de Quadros	work on worldwide eradication of smallpox and polio in the Western Hemisphere[1][40][41]
1999	Philip K. Russell [Wikidata]	work on infectious disease[1][42]
1998	Allen C. Steere	discovery of Lyme disease and further research on Lyme disease[1]
1998	Myron M. Levine [de]	education and mentorship[1][43]
1997	Maurice R. Hilleman	worked on development of "more vaccines than any other person in history"[1][44][45]
1996	Joseph L. Melnick	education and vaccine research[1][33]
1995	Robert M. Chanock	identification of respiratory syncytial virus[1][46][47]
1994	Donald A. Henderson	direction of WHO campaign to eradicate smallpox[1][48]

See also

• List of medicine awards

References

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External links

• Sabin Vaccine Institute