Dr. Plummer’s honours were numerous and impressive, including having been made an Officer of the Order of Canada and given the Order of Manitoba. His awards include the McLaughlin Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, the Prix Galien Research Award, the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award for his groundbreaking research in Africa in understanding HIV transmission and his leadership at the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory with pivotal roles in SARS, influenza and Ebola epidemics, and the Killam Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. Dr. Plummer was also the most recent recipient of the prestigious Flavelle Medal by the Royal Society of Canada in 2018, for a decade of outstanding contributions to biological science.