The Mühlbock-Nomura Award
Previous awardees:
The Bennet J Cohen Award
The Bennet Cohen Award was created to recognize an individual who has achieved prominence in promoting and advancing the “three Rs” of reduction, refinement and replacement in the use of laboratory animals in research, teaching and testing, first described in 1959 by Russell and Burch.
Since 1995, the award has been presented at each General Assembly to the following:
Marie Coates Award
(previously called the Outstanding Service Award)
The Outstanding Service Award was created to recognize an individual who has made an outstanding commitment to ICLAS and its programs. In 2005, the award was renamed as the “Marie Coates Award” in recognition of Dr Marie Coates’s pioneering work in gnotobiology, and laboratory animal health and quality.
The award is not routinely presented at ICLAS General Assemblies. Since 2003, there have been two awardees, as follows:
2019
2015
2007
2005
Marie Coates Award
Dr. Nomura and Dr. Demers (Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 25, 2005.)
2003
Outstanding Service Award
1991-1995 ICLAS Governing Board Member
1995-1999 Secretary General of ICLAS
1999-2003 President of ICLAS
For 12 years of Outstanding Commitment to the
International Council for Laboratory Animal Science and its Programs
Executive Director of the Canadian Council on Animal Care, Canada, 1968-1992
The Bennet Cohen Award was created to recognize an individual that have acheived prominence in promoting and advancing the “three Rs” of reduction, refinement and replacement in the use of laboratory animals in research, teaching and testing, first described in 1959 by Russell and Burch.
The Mühlbock Award is the oldest and most prestigious recognition that ICLAS confers. It is named after a renowned scientist and one of the early fathers of ICLAS, Professor O.F.E. Mühlbock of the Netherlands. The Award has been previously conferred upon many distinguished scientists, including a Nobel laureate, all of whom supported the value of using high quality, genetically and microbiologically-defined laboratory animals in research.