Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow ( b. 1934, Albany, NY) is an American microbiologist. Falkow regarded as the founder of the discipline of " Molecular Microbial Pathogenitätsforschung ". He is currently a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Life

Falkow studied biology and received his doctorate in 1955. At the University of Maine, USA His early studies were concerned with the study of antibiotic resistance and the importance of plasmids in the transfer of resistance. His later work on medical microbiology are of paramount importance for the entire field. In the investigation of various pathogens of bacterial diseases Falkow fundamental insights reach among others also in the development of new vaccines, for example, received against the Keuchhusterreger Bordetella pertussis.

Falkow published several hundred scientific articles. He is or was the editor of several scientific journals. For his work he received, inter alia, following awards and honors: the Bristol -Myers Squibb Award, the old Meier Medal, the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award, the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, the Maxwell Finland Award, the Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Microbiology and Selman A. Waksman Award 2003 in Microbiology of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he was awarded the Robert Koch Prize, the 2008 Lasker- Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science. He also received honorary doctorates rate in Europe and the United States.

Falkow was 1997-1998 president of the American Society for Microbiology and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.