Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Stanley Falkow is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. from Brown University. Upon completion of his graduate studies, Dr. Falkow became a staff member at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the Department of Bacterial Immunology and was later named the Assistant Chief of the Department. In 1966, he joined the faculty of Georgetown University Medical School as Professor of Microbiology. He later moved to Seattle to become a member of the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Washington Medical School. In 1981, he was named Chairman of the Department of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He held that position until 1985, and since then he has been Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicine at Stanford University.

Dr. Falkow's contributions to the field of microbiology have been enormous. He is recognized throughout the world for his observations related to molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. He has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his accomplishments. In 1986, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been honored by the Surgical Infectious Diseases Society of America (Altemeier Medal, 1990) and by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (Squibb Award, 1979). In 1993, he received the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Infectious Diseases Grant. He received the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award in 1995, the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1981, and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research in 1997. He was elected President of the American Society for Microbiology and served from July 1997 through June 1998. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1997 and received the Maxwell-Finland Award from the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases in 1999. He also received in 1999 an Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada and the University of Maine Alumni Career Award Alumni Career Award. In 2003, he received the Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology and the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences. He has received honorary doctorates in Europe and the United States. He received the Robert Koch Award in 2000. He has served as an editorial board member of many prestigious journals and belongs to numerous professional organizations. One of Dr. Falkow's greatest accomplishments has been mentoring many individuals who have continued their successes in the study of microbial pathogenesis.

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