Boman was awarded the Fernström Prize for outstanding work in medicine in 2000. The Nordic scientific community mourned his loss in 2008, both with a posthumous acknowledgement of his lifetime's achievements in 2009,[6] and by hosting the “Hans G. Boman” symposium held by Stockholm University on the 10-year anniversary of his death.[7] In 2015, a family of immune-inducible peptides in Drosophila was named the "Bomanins" in Boman's honour.[8]