Gardner Middlebrook Award

The Gardner Middlebrook award is elected by an award committee and announced during the Annual Congress

The Gardner Middlebrook Award is presented by the European Society of Mycobacteriology (ESM) at the Annual Congress.

The primary criterion for the award, which is mandatory, is that the recipient has had a long-standing career in mycobacteria research of high international quality.

Additionally, the following non-mandatory secondary criteria are also taken into consideration:

- Gender balance,

- European affiliation,

- Active contributions to ESM,

- Contributions beyond scientific research, such as communication and professional responsibilities within the field of mycobacteriology.

2024 - Lalita Ramakrishnan >
2023 - Graham Hatfull
2022 - Veronique Dartois & Philip Supply
2021 - Stefan Niemann
2019 - Sébastien Gagneux
2018 - David Alland
2017 - Daniela Cirillo
2016 - Stewart T. Cole
2015 - Dick van Soolingen
2014 - Stefan Kaufmann
2013 - Edward Desmond
2012 - William Bishai
2011 - Richard O Brien & Sven E. Hoffner
2010- None
2009 - Douglas Young & Barbara Brown-Elliott
2008 - Patrick Brennan & Richard Urbanczik
2007 - Adalbert Laszlo & Enrico Tortoli
2006 - Nancy Warren
2005 - Francoise Portaels & Max Salfinger
2004 - Sabine Ruesch-Gerdes, Glenn D. Roberts & Salman H. Siddiqi
2003 - Joseph O. Falkinham & William R, Jacobs, Jr
2002 - Jacques Grosset
2001 - Gaby Pfyffer & Leonid Heifets
2000 - Richard Wallace, Jr. & Pattisapo Gangadharam (Posthumous)
1999 - Kathleen Eisenach & Jack Crawford
1998 - Hajime Saito & Emanuel Wolinsky
1997 - Lawrence G. Wayne & Robert Good
1996 - George Kubica