?      Nominee for Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award, 1983; 1993.

?      Science Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award, 1999-2000.

Awards for Scholarship

?      George Murray Travelling Fellowship, 1974.

?      Alexander von Humboldt Stipendium for research in West Germany, 1975-77.

?      Foundation for Microbiology lecturer of the American Society for Microbiology, 1985-86.

?      U.B.C. Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Senior Fellowship, 1986-87.

?      B.C./People's Republic of China Exchange Professorship, 1987.

?      Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) Award, 1987 (Youngest winner of top Microbiology award

         in Canada).

?      U.B.C. Killam Research Prize, 1988.

?      Scientific Director, Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, 1989-96. (Resigned, January 15, 1996).

?      U.B.C. Faculty of Science Lecturer, 1992.

?      Canadian Society of Microbiologists/New England Biolabs Lecturer, 1992.

?      Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1994.

?      MRC/CIHR Distinguished Scientist Award, 1995-2000 (Major Salary award of CIHR, received in first

         year of program).

?      Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize, 2000 (UBC's top research award).

?      Innovation and Achievement Award, BC Biotech, 2001 (BC's top prize for Biotech).

?      Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Microbiology, 2001-2008.

?      Officer of the Order of Canada, 2001 (Canada's second highest honour).

?      Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2002.

?      Honorary Member, International Golden Key Society, 2002-6.

?      Aventis Pharmaceuticals Award, 2003 (Leading award worldwide for antimicrobial research, from

         the American Society of Microbiology).

?      Zellers Senior Scientist Award, Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 2003-4 (Top research award

        of CCFF).

?      Chairman's Award for Career Achievement, BC Innovation Council. 2004 (For career achievement

         in science).

?      Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2005.

?      McLaughlin Medal, Royal Society of Canada, 2005 (For important research of sustained excellence

         in medical science).

?      Michael Smith Prize in Health Research, Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year, 2006 (Canadian 

        Institutes for Health Research top award)

?      Killam Prize 2007 (Canada Council’s prize for Health Research)

?      Doctor of Science, honoris cause, University of Guelph 2008.

?      Order of British Columbia, 2009 (BC's highest honour).

Awards for Service

?      125th Anniversary of Canada Silver Medal, 1993.

?      Jubilee Medal (Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Medal), 2002.

Other Awards

?     American Men and Women in Science, 1989-10.

?     Canadian Who's Who, 1990-09.

?     Featured in Lifelines, Lancet, May 29, 1998.

?     Featured in MRC Performance Report to Parliament for period ending March 1999, pp. 19-20

        "International calibre health research. Progress in the search for more effective antibiotics".

?     Selected for Symposium on "Best of 1998" North American Cystic Fibrosis Mtg, Montreal, Oct 16, 1998

?     Featured interview on HMS Beagle at http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/71/notes/biofeed, 2000.

?     UBC Excellence in Research/ Vancouver Institute Lecture, March 9, 2002.

?     Interview article about my career to date in Lancet Infectious Diseases 3: 736-739; 2003, entitled

        "Robert E W Hancock - boosting innate immunity to combat infection"

?     CIHR Grant Ranked No. 1 by Microbiology Panel in competition, January 2005.

?     Paper (Nature Biotech 23:1008-1012; 2005) selected for "Highlights" section in October 2005 issue of

        Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

?     Named as one of “Canada’s Health Research Superheros” in a Globe and Mail special information

        supplement Sept 18, 2006.

?     Honoured as one of “Our Men of Princes” by my high school Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South

        Australia, 2006.

?     Advanced Foods and Materials Network’s President’s Medal Award. 2006. (“For excellence in

        research,training and results and strong connection with the NCE program since its infancy”).

?     Highest Ranked Canadian Foundation for Innovation proposal “Centre for Drug Research and

        Development” in 2006-7 competition, awarded $8 million.

?     Spitznagel Lecturer, Emory University, 2007

?     Canad. Assoc Pharmacy Students and Interns (CAPSI) 2007 Lectureship.

?     CIHR Grant Ranked No. 1 by Microbiology Panel in competition, January 2008.

?     Listed on the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Highly Cited Authors in Microbiology at

        http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/home.cgi, ISI author publication number A1065-2002-Z; 65 papers

        cited 81 - 1348 times; total citations 20,168 (Aug 2009); h-index 72.

?     Article with photo discussing my experience in commercialization.  Jim Kling & Laura DeFrancesco.

       The paper trail to commercialization, New routes to commercialization.  Nature Biotechnology 25:

       1217  - 1218, 2008.

?     Commended to Gordon Research Conferences "Hall of Fame" 2008-9 for excellent chairmanship of a