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2012 Cynthia L. Sears, M.D. Colon Cancer: Do Alpha-Bugs Lead the Charge?
2011 Gabriel Núñez, M.D. Nod-like Receptors in Host Defense and Disease
2010 Steven L. Kunkel, PhD Epigenetic Regulation of the Immune Cell Phenotype During Severe Sepsis
2009 Arnold J. Levine, PhD
2008 Kevin J. Tracey, MD The Inflamatory Reflex
2007 Bruce Beutler, MD Genetic Analysis of Mammalian Innate Immunity: Toll-like Receptors and other Components of the Resistome
2006 25th Annual Altemeier Lecture
Polly C.E. Matzinger, PhD Danger, Damage and Ancient Alarm Signals for the Immune System
2005 Marin H. Kollef, MD The Intensive Care Unit as a Research Laboratory: Developing Strategies to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance
2004 Ronald W. Davis, PhD Realizing the Roadmap: Human Genome to Translational Medicine
2003 Richard L. Simmons, MD Friendly Fire, and Other Tales of Patient Safety
2002 Sherwood Gorbach, MD Anaerobes in Surgery, Veillon & Zuber to Altemeier
2001 Dennis L. Stevens, MD Soft Tissue Infections
2000 Dan W. Brock, PhD An Ethical Framework for Critical Care Decision-making
1999 J. Thomas Grayston, MD Does Chlamydia Pneumoniae Cause Atherosclerosis?
1998 Carl F. Nathan, MD Nitric Oxide and NO Resistance Genes: Lessons from Tuberculosis
1997 Philippe Gros, PhD Role of Nramp-1 Gene in Natural Resistance to Infection and Macrophage Function
1996 Avraham Hershko, MD Ubiquitin System and Degradation of Protein
1995 William A. Knaus, MD From Aphorisms to APACHE: Surgery’s Brave New Word
1994 Richard J. Ulevitch, PhD Will Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Endotoxin Actions Lead to New Therapeutics?
1993 Michael A. Gimbrone, PhD Endothelium in Health and Disease: New Insights
1992 Richard M. J. Palmer, MD The Discovery of Nitric Oxide in the Vessel Wall: A Unifying Concept in the Pathogenesis of Sepsis
1991 Stanley Falkow, PhD The Zen of Bacterial Pathogenicity
1990 Anthony Cerami, PhD Cachectin/TNF as a Mediator of Inflammation, Cachexia, Shock and Death
1989 Charles G. Cochran, MD Consequences of Stimulated Leukocytes
1988 David C. Ward, MD The Diagnosis of Infectious, Genetic and Malignant Diseases Using Nucleic Acid Probes
1987 Michael B.A. Oldstone, MD Viral Diseases of the 21st Century
1986 Peter A. Ward, MD Leukocytes as Purveyors of Tissue Damage
1985 J. Wesley Alexander, MD Nutrition and Infection. New Perspectives for an Old Problem
1984 Pierce Gardner, MD Aspects of Antibiotics in Surgical Infection
1983 William A. Altemeier, MD The Staphylococcus – Our Worthy Adversary
1982 Richard Novick, MD Clinical Impact of Plasmids, Transposons and other special genes of bacteria


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