The Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) has decided to confer the FEMS-Lwoff Award on Croatian scientist Miroslav Radman, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the Medical Faculty (Faculte de Medecine - Necker) in Paris.
The FEMS-Lwoff Award is given for outstanding service to microbiology in Europe.
This year, the award-giving ceremony will be held in Geneva on 30 June, McCann Erickson, a global advertising agency network, reported on Thursday.
The FEMS-Lwoff Award series was initiated in 2000 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of FEMS. It was named in honour of the first FEMS President, Professor André M. Lwoff.
The award is conferred every three years.
Radman is a co-founder of the Mediterranean Institute For Life Sciences in Split.
