2012 Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD. Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Nick and Sue Hellmann Distinguished Professor of Translational Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research University of California, San Francisco
2011 Michael Emerman, PhD. Member, Division of Human Biology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2010 Stephen P. Goff, PhD. Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Microbiology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
2009 Irvin S. Y. Chen, PhD. Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine, Director of the AIDS Institute, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine
2008 Susan R. Ross, PhD. Measey Professor, Department of Microbiology and Associate Dean and Director of Biomedical Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2007 Kuan-Teh Jeang, MD, PhD. Head, Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
2006 Jaquelin P. Dudley, PhD. Professor of Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin
2005 Ronald C. Desrosiers, PhD. Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director, New England Regional Primate Research Center
2004 Eric Hunter, PhD. Professor of Microbiology, Director of the Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama Birmingham
2003 John M. Coffin, PhD. Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of the HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute
2002 Hung Fan, PhD. Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and the Cancer Research Institute, University of California, Irvine
2001 Julie M. Overbaugh, PhD. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine
2000 Jerome A. Zack, PhD. Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine and the AIDS Institute