The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the
German Cancer Research Center
The German Cancer Research Center (known as the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum or simply DKFZ in German) is a national cancer research center based in Heidelberg, Germany. It is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, ...
,
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
(DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The prize has been awarded annually since 1981, and currently has an honorarium of €50,000.
List of Recipients
Source
Meyenburg Award Winners
* 1981
Werner W. Franke
* 1982/1983
Holger Kirchner and
* 1984
Lutz Gissmann
Lutz Gissmann (born September 18, 1949 in Kaufbeuren, Germany) is a German virologist and was head of the Division “Genome Modifications and Carcinogenesis” at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg until his retirement in 2015 ...
* 1985
Volker Sturm
* 1986
Karin Mölling
* 1987
Mary Osborn
Mary Osborn (born in 1940)F. M. Watt. (2004) "Mary Osborn" ''Journal of Cell Science'' 117(8):1255-1256. is a L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award-winning English cell biologist who, until she stopped running an active laboratory in 2005, was ...
* 1988
Elisabeth Gateff
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
Hans-Georg Rammensee
Hans-Georg Rammensee (born 12 April 1953) is a German immunologist and cancer researcher. He has been Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Immunology at the University of Tübingen since 1996. Rammensee has contributed essentially to th ...
* 1992
Walter Birchmeier
* 1993
Johannes Gerdes
* 1994
* 1995
David P. Lane
* 1996
Peter H. Krammer
* 1997
Patrick S. Moore and
Yuan Chang
Yuan Chang (; born 17 November 1959) is a Taiwanese-American virologist and pathologist who co-discovered together with her husband, Patrick S. Moore, the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the s ...
* 1998
Richard D. Wood
Richard D. Wood (born June 3, 1955 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American molecular biologist specializing in research on DNA repair and mutation. He is known for pioneering studies on nucleotide excision repair (NER), particularly for reconstit ...
* 1999
Carl-Henrik Heldin
Carl-Henrik Heldin (born 9 August 1952) is Chairman of the Board for the Nobel Foundation, and a molecular biologist and medical researcher. He has been director of the Uppsala branch of Ludwig Cancer Research since 1986 and professor in molecular ...
* 2000
Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann (born 10 October 1959) is a scientist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics.
Early life and education
Born in Germany he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Y ...
* 2001
* 2002
Andrew Fire
Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello ...
* 2004
Erich A. Nigg
* 2005
Thomas Tuschl
Thomas Tuschl (born June 1, 1966) is a German biochemist and molecular biologist, known for his research on RNA.
Biography
Tuschl was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg. After graduating in Chemistry from Regensburg University, Tuschl received his P ...
* 2006
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, S ...
* 2007
Shinya Yamanaka
is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto ...
* 2008
Hans Clevers
Johannes (Hans) Carolus Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a Dutch Molecular genetics, molecular geneticist, Cell biology, cell biologist and stem cell researcher. He became the Head of Pharma, Research and Early Development, and a member of the C ...
* 2009
Brian Druker
Brian J. Druker (born April 30, 1955) is a physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland, Oregon. He is the director of OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute, Jeld-Wen Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine. In 2 ...
* 2010
Alan Ashworth
* 2011
Stefan Hell
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* 2012
Charles Mullighan
* 2013
Nathanael Gray
Nathanael S. Gray is a Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University and director of cancer therapeutics programme at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously he was a Nancy Lurie Marks Professor ...
* 2014
Peter Campbell (Sanger Institute)
* 2015
* 2016
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, sh ...
* 2017 (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
* 2019
Benjamin L. Ebert
See also
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List of biomedical science awards
This list of biomedical science awards is an index to articles on notable awards for biomedical sciences, a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of u ...
References
External links
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German science and technology awards
Cancer research awards
Lists of award winners
Awards established in 1981
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