Stanley Falkow, PhD

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Stanley Falkow, PhD, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, has been regarded as the foremost bacteriologist in the United States for more than a generation and has been  recognized throughout the world for his observations related to molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. 

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 Associate Professor of Microbiology.  He later moved to Seattle to become Professor of Microbiology and Medicine 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. 

He has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his accomplishments.  In 1984 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; Mentor Award, 2007). He received the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1981 from Germany.  In 1993 he received the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Infectious Diseases Grant and in 1997 received the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research.  He received the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award in 1995. 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.  In 2000 he received the Robert Koch Award from the German government. 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 received the 2005 American Society for Microbiology Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award. In 2007, he was elected to the Royal Society as a Foreign Member.  In 2008, he received the Lasker~Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. 

Dr. Falkow feels his greatest accomplishment has been that of mentor to many individuals who have continued their success in the study of microbial pathogenesis in universities around the world.