Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow FRS
Born	(1934-01-24)January 24, 1934 Albany, New York
Died	May 5, 2018(2018-05-05) (aged 84) Portola Valley, California
Education	University of Maine Brown University
Occupation(s)	Technician, Newport Hospital (1956–1957) Scientist, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1961–1966) Professor, Georgetown University (1967–1972) Professor, University of Washington (1972–1981) Professor, Stanford University (1981–2018)
Known for	Antibiotic resistance and molecular microbiology research
Partner(s)	Rhoda Ostroff (m.1958–1983) Lucy S. Tompkins (m. 1983–2018)
Children	2
Awards	Robert Koch Prize Marjory Stephenson Prize Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize Howard Taylor Ricketts Award National Medal of Science
Scientific career
Thesis	An episomic element in a strain of Salmonella typhosa (1960)
Doctoral advisor	Charles ("Doc") Arthur Stuart, Brown University
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Stanley "Stan" Falkow (January 24, 1934 – May 5, 2018) was an American microbiologist and a professor of microbiology at Georgetown University, University of Washington, and Stanford University School of Medicine. Falkow is known as the father of the field of molecular microbial pathogenesis.^[1] He formulated molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s.^[2] Falkow spent over 50 years uncovering molecular mechanisms of how bacteria cause disease and how to disarm them.^[1] Falkow also was one of the first scientists to investigate antimicrobial resistance, and presented his research extensively to scientific, government, and lay audiences explaining the spread of resistance from one organism to another, now known as horizontal gene transfer, and the implications of this phenomenon on our ability to combat infections in the future.^[1]