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Dr. Larry Corey Receives Alexander Fleming Award

By October 25, 2022No Comments

At a Washington, D.C. conference on infectious disease science, Dr. Anthony Fauci today presented a lifetime achievement award to his friend and longtime collaborator Dr. Larry Corey, an internationally renowned virologist and former president and director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

The prestigious award, given by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, or IDSA, was created in 1964 in honor of the late Dr. Alexander Fleming, the Scottish doctor and microbiologist who received the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin.

“I am so pleased that Larry will receive this award, and I am dou