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2014 Awards
Award Laureates Not Presenting
The award laureates below should also be congratulated. These awards do not include a lecture presentation.
ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award
Recognizes a member for outstanding contributions and
commitment to ASM as a volunteer at the national level.
Arturo Casadevall
Albert Einstein Coll. of Med.
Yeshiva Univ.
Bronx, NY
ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award
Honors exemplary teaching of microbiology and mentoring
of graduate and postgraduate students.
Shelley Payne
Univ. of Texas
Austin, TX
EMD Millipore Alice C. Evans Award
Recognizes sustained contributions toward the full
participation and advancement of women in microbiology.
Bonnie Bassler
Princeton Univ.
Princeton, NJ
William A. Hinton Research Training Award
Honors outstanding contributions toward fostering
the research training of underrepresented minorities
in microbiology.
Maria F. Lima
Meharry Med. Coll.
Nashville, TN
Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Awards
Recognize excellence in basic research in medical
microbiology and infectious diseases.
Michaela Gack
Harvard Med. Sch.
Boston, MA
Luiz Pedro Sório de Carvalho
MRC Natl. Inst. for Med. Res.
London, United Kingdom
Membership Board 2014 Career
Development Grants for Postdoctoral
Women Awardees
Claire Marie Filone; Natl. Emerging Infectious Diseases
Lab. at Boston Univ., Boston, MA
Elaine R. Frawley; Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Laura K. Strawn; Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Yanling Wang; Univ. of California-Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA
Raymond W. Sarber Awards
Honor undergraduate and predoctoral students for research
excellence and potential.
Fadie Coleman
Boston Univ. Sch. of Med.
Boston, MA
Kara Hardwick
Winthrop Univ.
Rock Hill, SC
Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award
Sponsored by GSK
Honors exemplary leadership and commitment towards
the furthering of the profession of microbiology in research,
education or technology in the developing world.
Yogendra Singh
Inst. of Genomics and Integrative Biol.
Delhi, India
Scherago-Rubin Award
Recognizes a stellar, bench-level clinical microbiologist.
Scott Cunningham
Mayo Clin.
Rochester, MN
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Young Investigator Award
Recognizes outstanding applied research in clinical
microbiology or antimicrobial therapy.
Benjamin Pinsky
Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med.
Stanford, CA
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Bench
Scientist Travel Grant Recipients
Ester Knobloch; Newman Regional Hlth., Emporia, KS
Diana Lancaster; Children’s Hosp. of Philadelphia, PA
Yiling (Kathy) Liu; The Univ. of Arizona Med. Ctr.–
Univ. Campus, Tucson
Nicholas Miranda; Orange County Pub. Hlth. Lab.,
Santa Anna, CA
Shek-Man Tsui; New York Presbyterian Hosp.–Weill
Cornell Med. Ctr., New York, NY
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