title: Lasker-Koshland Award to 21st century microbe master.
abstract: The 2008 Lasker-Koshland Award will be presented to Stanley Falkow, one of the legendary figures in the history of microbiology research. Falkow's many contributions remade the way we think about bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, and infectious disease.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA. ralph.isberg@tufts.edu
authors.forename: Ralph R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Isberg
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008829:Microbiology / Q000266:history*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D037521:Virulence Factors / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D037521:Virulence Factors