Purpose: Awarded since 1954 to recognise an extraordinary contribution to human or animal mycology.
Selection: Council or any group of at least 25 members and elected by two-thirds majority at the AGM.
Number awarded: Upto 3 each Congress.
Prize: Exemption from ISHAM Membership dues.
| Recipient(s) | Year of Award |
| Flavio De Queiroz Telles Filho Ruoyu Li Jacques F. Meis |
2025 |
| Arunaloke Chakrabarti Harish Gugnani |
2022 |
| Malcolm Richardson Neil Gow Basavaraj Madivalappa Hemashettar |
2018 |
| Bodo Wanke | 2015 |
| David Warnock David Ellis Gerhard Haase |
2012 |
| Michael Connole Sybren de Hoog Bertrand Dupont Yoshimura Fukazawa Olga Gompertz Fischman John Graybill Eveline Gueho-Kellerman Atksuhiko Hasegawa Dexter Howard Leo Kaufman Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung Elsheikh Mahgoub Michael McGinnis Johannes Muller Juneann Murphy Ricardo Negroni Kazuko Nishimura Yoshinori Nozawa Hideoki Ogawa Masahiko Okudaira Arvind Padhye Dinah Parr Annemarie Polak-Wyss Harbans S Randhawa Angela Restrepo-Moreno Esther Segal Paul Szaniszlo Harukuni Urabe Hugo Vanden Bossche Hideyo Yamaguchi |
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