2008 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science award given to Hamilton, Montana’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories scientist Stan Falkow

The Lasker Awards, which are considered the U.S. equivalent of the Nobel Prize, are this country’s most distinguished honor for researchers in basic and clinical medical sciences.

When Stan Falkow and Marshall Bloom first fly fished together more than 20 years ago, they floated down the Bitterroot River on a late summer day that turned cold and rainy.

Snow was falling by the time they reached the take-out, where Bloom told Falkow – a world-renowned microbiologist who has mentored legions of young researchers – that they needed to lift the raft onto the car.

“And he got this gleam in his eye and he said, ‘Well, where are the graduate students?’” Bloom said, chuckling. “That’s Stan.”

Falkow, a visiting scientist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton and a part-time Bitterroot Valley resident, recently received the 2008 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.

by JOHN CRAMER – Ravalli Republic

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