November 2011
Awards over the years: The Seré Legacy
2003 CGIAR Outstanding Scientific Article Award
African pastoralism: Genetic imprints of origins and migrations, published in
Science, by Olivier Hanotte, Daniel Bradley, Joel Ochieng, Yasmin Verjee, Emmeline
Hill, Ed Rege (2002), the first continent-wide study of the genetic diversity of cattle in
Africa.
2004 CGIAR Outstanding Communications Award
Smallholder Dairy Project, jointly implemented by ILRI, Kenyan Ministry of Livestock
and Fisheries Development, and Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute.
CGIAR Outstanding Scientist Award
Brian Perry, ILRI veterinary epidemiologist, for innovative work on the dynamics and
control of tick-borne diseases of livestock.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
ILRI postdoctoral fellow Joesph Ogutu to undertake long-term periods of research in
Germany; past recipients include 35 Nobel Prize Laureates.
2005 CGIAR Promising Young Scientist Award
Simon Graham, ILRI molecular biologist, for seminal research leading to the
development of a novel, sensitive, and robust immunological assay that screens
target parasite molecules causing East Coast fever.
2007 CGIAR Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article
Teams from ILRI and the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) for their paper
‘Genome sequence of Theileria parva, a bovine pathogen that transforms
lymphocytes” published in Science.
2010 Member of the Order of Australia
Gabrielle Persley, senior advisor to ILRI’s director general, for her service to
science through advisory roles with national and international agricultural research
organizations, and through support for the development of livestock health,
particularly in Africa.
Wilhelm-Pfeiffer Medal of the Justus-Liebig University (Giesssen, Germany)
ILRI board member Dieter Schillinger for his outstanding contribution and service to
promote research and innovation in veterinary medicines.
World Food Prize
JoLuck, former ILRI board member and ILRI collaborator, for her work for Heifer
International, helping to build it into a premier hunger-fighting non-profit
organization, bringing food- and income-producing animals to extremely poor
families.
2011 Vision 2030 ICT Innovation Award (Kenya)
ILRI’s Index-based Livestock Insurance Project, a novel product for poor pastoral
herders in Kenya’s Marsabit District.