Oswald Avery Award
The Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement recognizes outstanding achievement in an area of infectious diseases by an IDSA member or fellow who is 45 or younger (on Dec. 31 of the year preceding the IDWeek at which the award is given). The award is based on overall achievement, not usually a single study.
Oswald Avery, MD, (1877-1955) was an American physician and researcher renowned for his groundbreaking work in genetics and molecular biology. He is best known for his experiments conducted in the 1940s, which demonstrated that DNA carries genetic information and can transfer traits between different organisms. His work laid the foundation for the understanding of DNA as the hereditary material and paved the way for the subsequent discoveries in the field of genetics.
Awardee
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Sameer Kadri, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA
Sameer Kadri, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA, has emerged as a global leader in harnessing data science to address pressing questions in infectious diseases related to antimicrobial resistance, sepsis, the COVID-19 pandemic and other epidemiological challenges. He has conducted pivotal studies with tremendous speed that have had significant national and global impact.
Past Oswald Avery Award winners
2024 Pranita Tamma, MD, MHS
2023 Talia Swartz, MD, PhD, FIDSA
2022 Nadine Rouphael, MD, FIDSA
2021 Michail Lionakis, MD, ScD, FIDSA
2020 Sallie R. Permar, MD, PhD
2019 Nasia Safdar, MD, MS, PhD, FIDSA, FSHEA
2018 Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS, FIDSA
2017 William J. Steinbach, MD
2016 Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA
2015 Eric R. Houpt, MD, FIDSA
2014 Sarah E. Cosgrove, MD, MS, FIDSA, FSHEA, and
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2013 Cesar A. Arias, MD, MSc, PhD, FIDSA
2012 Dan A. Barouch, MD, PhD
2011 Umesh Parashar, MBBS, MPH
2010 Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, PhD, FIDSA
2009 Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PHD
2008 Vance G. Fowler Jr., MD, MHS
2007 Pablo C. Okhuysen, MD, FIDSA
2006 Cynthia G. Whitney, MD, MPH
2005 James E. Crowe, MD
2004 B. Brett Finlay, PhD
2003 Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD
2002 Matthew K. Waldor, MD, PhD
2001 David A. Relman, MD
2000 Michael S. Donnenberg, MD
1999 William A. Petri Jr., MD, PhD
1998 Joseph W. St. Geme III, MD
1997 Samuel I. Miller, MD
1996 David D. Ho, MD
1995 Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH
1994 Mark Klempner, MD
1993 Claire Broome, MD
1992 Martin Blaser, MD
1991 Marcus Horwitz, MD
1990 Jerrold Ellner, MD
1989 Henry Murray, MD
1988 Walter Stamm, MD
1987 John Gallin, MD
1986 Charles Dinarello, MD
1985 Dennis Kasper, MD
1984 Adel Mahmoud, MD, PhD
1983 Anthony Fauci, MD
1982 George Miller, PhD
1981 Gerald Keusch, MD
1980 Robert Purcell, MD
1979 Stanley Falkow, PhD
1978 King Holmes, MD, PhD
1977 Lowell Glasgow, MD, MS
1976 Sheldon Wolff, MD
1975 Kenneth Warren, MD
1974 Malcolm Artenstein, MD, and
Emil Gotschilch, MD
1973 Frank Austen, MD
1972 Zanvil Cohn, MD
1971 Jonathan Uhr, MD
1970 Hans Mueller-Eberhard, MD, DMSc
1969 Robert Chancock, MD
1968 Robert Good, MD, PhD