Awards & Honoraria

The GVN Robert C. Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership

The GVN Robert C. Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to virology and to the mission of the Global Virus Network. Honorees are nominated by their peers for publishing important scientific discoveries in fields such as basic and clinical research, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnostics, antivirals, and vaccine development.

Beyond research, awardees exemplify GVN’s mission through activities such as building the global network of Centers of Excellence and Affiliates, mentoring and training the next generation, contributing to scientific meetings and Action Committees, and advocating for science-based decision making.

The award is presented each year at the GVN Annual International Scientific Meeting, where the recipient is recognized before colleagues from around the world.

2024 HONOREE

Linfa Wang, PhD

Professor Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Duke-NUS Medical School
Inaugural Executive Director, PREPARE,
Ministry of Health, Singapore

2023 HONOREE

Robert F. Garry, PhD

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Dean for Biomedical Sciences
Tulane University School of Medicine

2020 HONOREE

Sharon Lewin, FRACP, PhD, FAHMS

Director
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Melbourne, Australia

2019 HONOREE

William Hall, BSc, PhD, MD, DTMH

Professor of Microbiology and Public Health (Emeritus), University College Dublin (UCD)

2018 HONOREE

Michael Oldstone, MD

Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, California Campus.
Faculty member, Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Neurosciences in UCSD School of Medicine.
Resident Scholar (Professor), at the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2018 HONOREE

Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD

Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute

2017 HONOREE

Diane Griffin, MD, PhD

Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2016 HONOREE

Ab Osterhaus, DVM, PhD

Director of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
Hannover, Germany

2016 HONOREE

Scott Weaver, MS, PhD

Chair of GVN’s Chikungunya and Zika Task Forces,
Director of the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, and Scientific Director of the Galveston National Laboratory
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