Winner: Eckard Wimmer
Eckard WimmerProfessor
Eckard Wimmer of Setauket has received the 2012 Robert Koch Gold Medal, an international scientific award issued by the Robert Koch Foundation under the patronage of the German minister of health, based on Wimmer's "groundbreaking research" on the poliovirus. Wimmer is a distinguished professor in Stony Brook University's Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology...