Description
Honorary Life Membership in the IEIIS is an honor that is bestowed upon individuals who have made significant contributions throughout their careers to the knowledge and understanding of bacterial endotoxins and innate immunity. According to IEIIS constitution, one individual may be selected each year to receive this honor, though exceptions to this have been made. Nominations are made by the society membership prior to each biennial conference, and the recipients are chosen by the Governing Council.
Honorees
| 2024 | Chris Whitfield |
| 2023 | (not presented this year) |
| 2022 | (not presented this year) |
| 2021 | Koichi Fukase |
| 2020 | Jerrold Weiss |
| 2019 | Martine Caroff |
| 2018 | Otto Holst |
| 2017 | Stefanie Vogel |
| 2016 | Alan Cross |
| 2014 | Jean-Marc Cavaillon |
| 2013 | (not presented this year) |
| 2012 | Sadaaki Iwanaga, Barnet Sultzer |
| 2011 | Ulrich Seydel |
| 2010 | Shizuo Akira |
| 2009 | Robert Munford |
| 2008 | Peter Elsbach |
| 2007 | Shoichi Kusumoto |
| 2006 | Ernst Th. Rietschel |
| 2005 | Jack Levin |
| 2004 | Jon (Tony) Rudbach |
| 2003 | David Morrison |
| 2002 | Herbert Morgan, Malcolm Perry |
| 2001 | Johanna Schlosshardt |
| 2000 | Arthur G. Johnson |
| 1999 | |
| 1998 | Masayasu Nakano |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | Sheldon Greisman |
| 1995 | Tetsuo Shiba |
| 1994 | Louis Chedid, Walter Goebel |
| 1993 | J. Yuzuru Homma, Otto Lüderitz |
| 1992 | William R. McCabe, WTJ Morgan |
| 1991 | Mary Jane Osborn, Anna-Marie Staub |
| 1990 | Lewis Thomas, Dennis W. Watson |
| 1988 | Otto Westphal |