Awards

Teaching

Scholarship

2016 UBC Killam Professor
2012 Prix Galien (Highest Award for Canadian Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation)
2011 Cystic Fibrosis Canada Senior Scientist Training Award
2011 Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
2010 UBC Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring
2009 Order of British Columbia (BC’s highest honour)
2008 Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Guelph
2007 Killam Prize (Canada Council’s prize for Health Research)
2006 Michael Smith Prize in Health Research, Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year (Canadian Institutes for Health Research top award)
2005 McLaughlin Medal, Royal Society of Canada (For important research of sustained excellence in medical science)
2005 Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
2004 Chairman’s Award for Career Achievement, BC Innovation Council (For career achievement in science)
2003-04 Zellers Senior Scientist Award, Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Top research award of CCFF)
2003 Aventis ICAAC Antimicrobial Research Award (Leading award worldwide for antimicrobial research, from the American Society of Microbiology)
2002-06 Honorary Member, International Golden Key Society
2002 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
2001-21 Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Microbiology, renewed twice 2008-2014 and 2015-2021
2001 Officer of the Order of Canada (Canada’s second highest honour)
2001 Innovation and Achievement Award, BC Biotech (BC’s top prize for Biotech)
2000 Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize, 2000 (UBC’s top research award)
1995-00 MRC/CIHR Distinguished Scientist Award (Major Salary award of CIHR, received in first year of program)
1994 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1992 Canadian Society of Microbiologists/New England Biolabs Lecturer
1992 UBC Faculty of Science Lecturer
1989-96 Scientific Director, Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network (Resigned, January 15, 1996)
1988 UBC Killam Research Prize (Leading faculty research prize at UBC)
1987 Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) Award (Youngest winner of top Microbiology award in Canada)
1987 BC/People’s Republic of China Exchange Professorship
1986-87 UBC Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Senior Fellowship
1985-86 Foundation for Microbiology lecturer of the American Society for Microbiology
1975-77 Alexander von Humboldt Stipendium for research in West Germany
1974 George Murray Travelling Fellowship

Service

Other

2023 Top Canadian Scientist in Microbiology and fourth in the world, ranked by Research.com
2016 Highly ranked (#267 in Aug 2016) amongst most highly cited scientist all time by http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/58. According to Scholarometer, ranked (according to h-index) #2 worldwide in Microbiology, #10 in Immunology.
2015 Mentor for Gordon Research Seminars May 2-3
2015 Awarded in Sept 2015, as Co-Director, $7,408,606 for Genome Canada grant on Reverse Vaccinology Approach for the Prevention of Mycobacterial Disease in Cattle.
2012 Appointed as an Associate Faculty Member of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, one of the top 3 Genome campuses worldwide. There are only 12 Associate Faculty Members (status equivalent to full Faculty), and Hancock is the only one outside of Europe and 1 of only 2 outside of the UK.
2012 Described in Globe and Mail Business Supplement article as one of Canada’s Research stars on March 27, 2012 demonstrating the highest H-index (HiBAR) score of any researcher in Canada (81 cf. 68 as next highest).
2011 CIHR POP grant. Ranked No. 1 in March 2011 competition
2010 Distinguished Microbix Mentor, Queen’s University
2009 Listed on the Institute for Scientific Information’s (ISI) Highly Cited Authors in Microbiology, ISI author publication number A1065-2002-Z; 65 papers cited 81 – 1348 times; total citations 20,168 (Aug 2009); h-index 72.
2008-09 Commended to Gordon Research Conferences “Hall of Fame” for excellent chairmanship of a Gordon Conference
2008 Chair and Co-founder, 2nd Gordon Conference on New Antibacterial Discovery and Development, Il Cioco, Italy, March 9-14.
2008 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.
2008 CIHR Grant Ranked No. 1 by Microbiology Panel in competition, January 2008
2007 Canad. Assoc Pharmacy Students and Interns (CAPSI) Lectureship
2007 Spitznagel Lecturer, Emory University
2006-07 Highest Ranked Canadian Foundation for Innovation proposal “Centre for Drug Research and Development” in 2006-7 competition, awarded $20 million with Provincial matching.
2006 Advanced Foods and Materials Network’s President’s Medal Award (“For excellence in research, training and results and strong connection with the NCE program since its infancy”).
2006 Honoured as one of “Our Men of Princes” by Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia
2006 Named as one of “Canada’s Health Research Superheros” in a Globe and Mail special information supplement Sept 18, 2006
2005 Paper (Nature Biotech 23:1008-1012; 2005) selected for “Highlights” section in October 2005 issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
2005 CIHR Grant Ranked No. 1 by Microbiology Panel in competition, January 2005
2003 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”
2002- Listed on the Institute for Scientific Information’s (ISI) Highly Cited Authors in Microbiology since 2002 at www.highlycited.com, ISI author publication number E-1145-2013.
2002 UBC Excellence in Research/ Vancouver Institute Lecture, March 9, 2002
2000 Featured interview on HMS Beagle
1999 Featured in Medical Research Council (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”
1998 Selected for Symposium on “Best of 1998” North American Cystic Fibrosis Mtg, Montreal, Oct 16, 1998
1998 Featured in Lifelines, Lancet, May 29, 1998
1990-2016 Canadian Who’s Who
1989-2016 American Men and Women in Science