CGIAR+Awards

Pictured above from left to right: ILRI’s Director of Research, John McDermott, and TIGR scientist (and former ILRI staff member) Vish Nene, with the Award for //‘Outstanding Scientific Paper’//. Looking on is ILRI’s Director General Carlos Seré and Bruce Scott, ILRI Director, Partnership and Communications.
 * ILRI’s CGIAR Awards (see link** @http://www.cgiar.org/newsroom/scientific.html)
 * 2006**

Simon Paul Graham, from ILRI, won the "Science Award for Promising Young Scientist" for seminal research leading to the development of a novel, sensitive, and robust immunological assay that screens target parasite molecules causing East Coast Fever (ECF), a debilitating bovine disease that is the bane of pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa. For details, see this ILRI News blog post: ILRI scientist Simon Graham wins international ‘Promising Young Scientist’ award
 * 2005**

Brian Perry, a veterinary epidemiologist who works at the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) received the International Outstanding Scientist Award for his research in three areas. These were on the dynamics, impact and control of tick-borne diseases, on integrating veterinary epidemiology and agricultural economics as decision support tools for improving animal health, and on understanding the mechanisms and processes by which poverty can be reduced through the better control of livestock diseases. This is the first time a veterinarian has received such an award, and the first time this prestigious annual global award has been made for work on livestock issues.
 * 2004**

Outstanding Communications Award to Smallholder Dairy Project, jointly implemented by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenyan Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, and Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute for an innovative communication strategy that helped raise awareness among key policymakers about strategic and pro-poor issues in reforming East Africa's dairy sector.

The Outstanding Scientific Article award went to three researchers at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (ITTA), K. Cardwell, A. Hounsa, and S. Egal, along with Y.Y. Gong, P.C. Turner, and C.P. Wild of the University of Leeds, U.K., and A. J. Hall at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and to Oliver Hanotte, Joel W. Ochieng, Yasmin Verjee, and J. Edward O. Rege of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Daniel G. Bradley and Emmeline W. Hill of the Smurfit Institute at Trinity College in Ireland
 * 2003**

CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to: Outstanding Scientist: Hari C. Sharma (ICRISAT), Promising Young Scientist: Alex Kahi (ILRI), CIAT: Outstanding Partnership for Sustainable Land Management of Acid Soil Savannas, IRRI: Outstanding Scientific Support Team for their work on IRRI's hybrid rice breeding program, IRRI: Outstanding Scientific Article: "Genetic Diversity and Disease Control in Rice Prof. Dr. sc. agr. A. K. Kahi is now an Associate Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics at Egerton University's Department of Animal Sciences.
 * 2001**

CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to: Paul E. Ilona (IITA), Amos Omore (ILRI), James Legg (IITA), and David Bergvinson (CIMMYT) 1998 CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to Keith Ballingall (ILRI), Kedar N. Rai (ICRISAT), Imad Eujayl (ICARDA) and in partnership to ICLARM, the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Institute of Aquaculture Research, Norway.
 * 1999**

Japanese Third Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to Shozo Watanabe (ILRI Board Member)

 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Peter Doherty (former ILRAD Board Member) //Australian Peter Doherty, 1996 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine who served on the board of trustees of the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a predecessor of ILRI (Deadly rinderpest virus today declared eradicated from the earth-'greatest achievement in veterinary medicine' 28 June 2011)//
 * 1996**

The Ohyama Medical Research Prize from Japan is conferred to Hiroyuki and Kazu Hirumi (ILRAD/ILRI) for development of culture systems enabling laboratory scientists to grow trypanosome parasites thus creating a model for research on this livestock disease.
 * 1991**