Alexander Fleming Award Winners

Current Winner

haynessized BARTON F. HAYNES, MD, FIDSA, a thought leader in the fields of human host-pathogen interactions and immune reconstitution, is the recipient of IDSA’s 2011 Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement. This award recognizes a career that reflects major contributions to the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge of infectious diseases. Dr. Haynes has been a pioneer in the development of a vaccine for HIV. Through his seminal work in the biology of human thymic epithelium and thymocytes, he has enriched our understanding of human thymic function and established the foundation for thymic cell transplantation for the curative treatment of DiGeorge Syndrome.

Dr. Haynes is the Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. His research during the last 10 years has focused on the development of an HIV-1 vaccine. Through his work, Dr. Haynes has demonstrated the importance of tolerance and other immunoregulatory mechanisms in hampering the development of broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1, launching HIV vaccine development into a new direction.

After receiving his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1973, Dr. Haynes completed his medical residency and internship at Duke Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. From 1975 to 1980, he worked in various roles at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In July 1980, he began teaching at Duke University in the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology. In 2005, he was named director of the National Institutes of Health Center of HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), an international consortium of scientists with the task of developing an effective HIV-1 vaccine. Under his leadership, CHAVI has defined the early T cell responses to HIV and their protective nature, provided the most extensive assessment of HIV antibody responses during acute HIV infection, and developed vaccine candidates that are entering clinical trials. Dr. Haynes has published more than 480 journal articles and served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific publications such as the Journal of Clinical Immunology and Blood.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of infectious diseases and immunology for more than 30 years—from his groundbreaking research to develop thymus transplantation for T cell deficiency to his work to develop a vaccine for HIV/AIDS—IDSA is proud to present Dr. Haynes with the 2011 Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Past Award Winners

2010	Herbert L. DuPont, MD, FIDSA
2009	Arnold S. Monto, MD, FIDSA
2008	Robert C. Moellering, Jr., MD, FIDSA
2007	Sherwood L. Gorbach, MD, FIDSA
2006	Merle A. Sande, MD, FIDSA
2005	John G. Bartlett, MD
2004	Stanley A. Plotkin, MD
2003	Bennett Lorber, MD
2002	Gerald T. Keusch, MD
2001	William A. Craig, MD
2000	Gerald L. Mandell, MD
1999	Anthony S. Fauci, MD
1998	Vincent Andriole, MD
1997	Andre J. Nahmias, MD
1996	Jack S. Remington, MD
1995	Jerome Klein, MD
1994	Paul Quie, MD
1993	Seymour Klebanoff, MD
1992	Sheldon Wolff, MD
1991	Theodore Woodward, MD, MACP
1990	George McCracken, Jr., MD
1989	Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, MD
1988	Samuel Katz, MD
1987	Sydney Finegold, MD
1986	Robert Austrian, MD
1985	Elisha Atkins, MD
1984	Morton Swartz, MD
1983	Wesley Spink, MD
1982	Edward Kass, MD, PhD, MS
1981	Jay Sanford, MD
1980	Thomas Weller, MD, MS
1979	Gordon Meikeljohn, MS
1978	Louis Weinstein, MD, PhD
1977	William Kirby, MD
1976	Saul Krugman, MD
1975	Harry Dowling, MD
1974	Lawrence Sherwood, MD
1973	Charles Rammelkamp, MD
1972	Paul Beeson, MD
1971	Colin MacLeod, MD
1970	K. F. Meyer, PhD, DVM
1969	Thomas Francis, MD
1968	John Dingle, MD
1967	Chester Keefer, MD
1966	Maxwell Finland, MD
1965	W. Barry Wood, MD
1964	Ellard Yow, MD

Alexander Fleming Award Winners

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Past Award Winners

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