The Heinrich Wieland Prize is awarded annually by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the areas of chemistry, biochemistry and physiology as well as their clinical importance. In 1963, the Margarine Institute established the Heinrich Wieland Prize to support research in the field of lipids. In 2000, the Margarine Institute ended its sponsorship of the Prize and the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim became the new sponsor. In 2011, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation took over the prize. The awardee is selected by a scientific board of trustees. The prize is named after the Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry Professor

Heinrich Wieland Heinrich Otto Wieland (; 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. Career In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studyin ...

(1877-1957), one of the leading lipid chemists of the first half of the 20th century. To mark its 50th anniversary in 2014, the prize money was raised to 100,000 euros. Four of its awardees have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein (1974),

Bengt Samuelsson Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born 21 May 1934) is a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Education a ...

(1981) and James E. Rothman 1990.

Prize winners

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Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
*1964:

Ernst Klenk Ernst Klenk (14 October 1896, Pfalzgrafenweiler – 29 December 1971, Cologne) was a German biochemist, known as a pioneer in research on biolipids, their metabolism, and diseases caused by biolipid disorders. Biography Klenk's father had a farm ...

*1965: Wilhelm Stoffel *1966: ''no award presented'' *1967: Heinrich Wagener and Bruno Frosch *1968: David Adriaan van Dorp *1969:

Werner Seubert Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Raid ...

*1970: Christian Bode and Harald Goebell *1971: Laurens L.M. van Deenen *1972:

Heiner Greten __NOTOC__ Heiner is a German male name, a diminutive of Heinrich, and also a surname. Given name *Heiner Backhaus (born 1982), professional footballer *Heiner Baltes (born 1949), former football defender *Heiner Brand (born 1952), former West Ge ...

and Kurt Oette *1973:

Shosaku Numa was a Japanese neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on neurotransmitters and ion channels, and for his contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanisms of neural signalling. Biography Numa was born in Wakayama, Japan and ...

*1974: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein *1975: Ernst Ferber and Klaus Resch *1976: Dietrich Seidel and Eckhart Schweizer *1977: Gerd Assmann and Helmut K. Mangold *1978: Olga Stein and Yechezkiel Stein *1979: Konrad Sandhoff *1980: H. Bryan Brewer and Barry Lewis *1981:

*1982: Hansjörg Eibl and Robert William Mahley *1983: John M. Dietschy *1984: Olaf Adam and Gerhart Kurz *1985: Guy Ourisson *1986:

Eugene P. Kennedy Eugene Patrick Kennedy (1919–2011) was an American biochemist known for his work on lipid metabolism and membrane function. He attended DePaul University and then became a PhD student at the University of Chicago. From 1959 to 1993 he worked at ...

*1987: Akira Endo and Dietrich Keppler *1988: Lawrence C.B. Chan *1989: Ching-Hsien Huang *1990: James E. Rothman and Karel W. A. Wirtz *1991: Jan L. Breslow *1991: Wolfgang J. Schneider *1992: Lev D. Bergelson *1993:

Walter Neupert Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

*1994:

Joachim Seelig Joachim Heinrich Seelig (born 29 March 1942 in Cologne) is a German physical chemist and specialist in NMR Spectroscopy. He is one of the founding fathers of the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Life Joachim Seelig studied chemistry and p ...

*1995: Jean E. Schaffer an
Dennis E. Vance
*1996: Jeffrey M. Friedman *1997: Bruce M. Spiegelman *1998: Thomas E. Willnow *1999: Ernst Heinz *2000: Lewis Clayton Cantley *2001: Felix Wieland *2002: Stephen O'Rahilly *2003:

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*2004:

Raphael Mechoulam Raphael Mechoulam ( he, רפאל משולם, bg, Рафаел Мешулам; born 5 November 1930) is an Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Mechoulam is best known for h ...

and Roger Nicoll *2005:

Helen Hobbs Helen Haskell Hobbs, M.D., (born May 5, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, who won a 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences an ...

*2006: Alois Fürstner *2007:

Joachim Herz Joachim Herz (15 June 1924 – 18 October 2010) was a German Opera director and manager. He learned at the Komische Oper Berlin as an assistant to Walter Felsenstein. His major stations were the Leipzig Opera where he opened the new house with Wa ...

*2008: Markus Stoffel *2009:

Steven Ley Steven Victor Ley (born 10 December 1945) is Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000� ...

*2010:

Nenad Ban Nenad Ban is a biochemist born in Zagreb, Croatia who currently works at the ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as a professor of Structural Molecular Biology. He is a pioneer in studying gene expression mechanisms and the partici ...

*2011:

Franz-Ulrich Hartl Franz-Ulrich Hartl (born 10 March 1957) is a German biochemist and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding and is a recipient of the 2011 ...

*2012:

Carolyn R. Bertozzi Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term "bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with ...

*2013:

Tony Kouzarides Tony Kouzarides (born 17 January 1958), FMedSci, FRS is a senior group leader Gurdon Institute, a founding non-executive director of Abcam and a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge. Education Tony did his PhD at thUnive ...

*2014:

Reinhard Jahn Reinhard Jahn (born 21 December 1950) is a German biophysicist and neurobiologist known for his studies of cellular membrane fusion. For these investigations, he has been honored with numerous awards, including the 2000 Leibniz Award. Jahn is ...

*2015:

Gero Miesenböck Gero Andreas Miesenböck (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian scientist. He is currently Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen ...

*2016:

Peter G. Schultz Peter G. Schultz (born June 23, 1956) is an American chemist. He is the CEO and Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, the founder and former director of GNF, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedi ...

*2017:

Alexander Varshavsky Alexander Jacob Varshavsky (russian: link=no, Александр Яковлевич Варшавский; born 8 November 1946) is a Russian-American biochemist, noted for his discovery of the N-end rule of ubiquitination. A native of Moscow, he ...

*2018:

Pascale Cossart Pascale Cossart (born 21 March 1948) is a French bacteriologist who is affiliated with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She is the foremost authority on ''Listeria monocytogenes'', a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephal ...

*2019: *2020: Craig M. Crews *2021:

Thomas Boehm Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

*2022:

Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang (; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the H ...

Laureate 2022
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*http://www.heinrich-wieland-prize.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Wieland Prize Boehringer Ingelheim Chemistry awards American science and technology awards Awards established in 1963

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